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# סֶמֶל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5566

**image** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

image [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5566/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סֶ֫מֶל: n.m. image, statue [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5566/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Ez 8, 5 perhaps orig. n.pr.div., then gen. image, statue (Ph. סמל id., f. סמלת, Lzb 151, 329, also פנסמלת Id 329; BauRel. i. 88 understands ס׳ to be design. of foreign god);—abs. הַסּ׳ 2 Ch 33:7, 15, סָ֑מֶל Dt 4:16; cstr. סֵ֫מֶל Ez 8:3, 5;—image, figure of anything, פֶּסֶלּ תְּמוּנַת כָּל־ס׳ Dt 4:16; idol-image פֶּסֶל הַסּ׳ 2 Ch 33:7 and (פֶּסֶל om.) v 15; סֵמֶל הַקִּנְאָת Ez 8:3 the statue of jealousy, i.e. that rouses י׳’s jealousy, = v 5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: image (3); of the image (1); the image (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 4:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.16/#tree)

פֶּ֨ן־תַּשְׁחִת֔וּן וַעֲשִׂיתֶ֥ם לָכֶ֛ם פֶּ֖סֶל תְּמוּנַ֣ת כָּל־סָ֑מֶל תַּבְנִ֥ית זָכָ֖ר א֥וֹ נְקֵבָֽה׃

*Word for word:* lest you should.act.corruptly and you.will.make for yourselves an.idol a.form of.any image a.likeness of.a.male or a.female

*JPS 1917:* lest ye deal corruptly, and make you a graven image, even the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

[2 Chronicles 33:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.33.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.33.15/#tree)

וַ֠יָּסַר אֶת־אֱלֹהֵ֨י הַנֵּכָ֤ר וְאֶת־הַסֶּ֙מֶל֙ מִבֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֔ה וְכָל־הַֽמִּזְבְּח֗וֹת אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּנָ֛ה בְּהַ֥ר בֵּית־יְהוָ֖ה וּבִירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וַיַּשְׁלֵ֖ךְ ח֥וּצָה לָעִֽיר׃

*Word for word:* and he.removed (et) the.gods of.(the) foreignness and (et) the image from the.house of.Yahweh and all the altars which he.had.built on the.mountain of.the.house of.Yahweh and in Jerusalem and he.threw.\[them\] outside to.\[the\] of the city

*JPS 1917:* And 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.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5566.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5566/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).