Tselem צֶ֫לֶם

Tselem (Hebrew צֶ֫לֶם, Strong's H6754) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “image”. It occurs 17 times in 15 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Topics

• Image of God

Verses

Every verse with Tselem, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 1:26
  And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
• Genesis 1:27
  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
• Genesis 5:3
  And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.
• Genesis 9:6
  Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

Numbers

• Numbers 33:52
  Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 6:5
  Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.Make images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lift His hand from you and your gods and your land.
• 1 Samuel 6:11
  And they laid the ark of the Lord upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.Then they put the ark of the LORD on the cart, along with the chest containing the gold rats and the images of the tumors.

2 Kings

• 2 Kings 11:18
  And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the Lord.So all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. And Jehoiada the priest posted guards for the house of the LORD.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 23:17
  Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.So all the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.

Psalms

• Psalm 39:6
  Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
• Psalm 73:20
  As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 7:20
  As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.
• Ezekiel 16:17
  Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself.
• Ezekiel 23:14
  And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,

Amos

• Amos 5:26
  But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.

Notes

1. 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.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).