HebrewH6456Noun (Masculine)

פָּסִיל

pe.sil

22Occurrences
H6456Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

an idol

from H6458 (פָּסַל);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
image, idol, graven image Another spelling of pe.sel (*פֶּ֫סֶל *"idol" H6459)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

פָּסִיל appears 22 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

2 Chronicles
5
Isaiah
4
Jeremiah
4
Deuteronomy
3
Judges
2
2 Kings
1
Hosea
1
Micah
1

Key Passages

2 Chronicles 33:19BSB

His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.

2 Chronicles 34:7BSB

He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Deuteronomy 7:25BSB

You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.

Isaiah 30:22BSB

So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”

Jeremiah 50:38BSB

A drought is upon her waters,and they will be dried up.For it is a land of graven images,and the people go mad over idols.

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