Semel סֶ֫מֶל
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| סֶ֫מֶל | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | semel |
| Strong's number | H5566 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | idol |
| Occurrences | 5 in 5 verses |
| Most frequent in | 2 Chronicles (2) |
Semel (Hebrew סֶ֫מֶל, Strong's H5566) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “idol”. It occurs 5 times in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
image, statue, idol
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | idol (2), image (2), figure (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | idol (3), shape (1), image (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Semel, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Deuteronomy
- Deuteronomy 4:16Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,
2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 33:7And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
- 2 Chronicles 33:15And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the Lord, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.
Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 8:3And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.
- Ezekiel 8:5Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.“Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of jealousy.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).