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# עָצָב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6091

**idol** — used 17 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

idol [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6091/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָצָב: idol [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6091/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] idol;—always pl. עֲצַבִּים (Ges§ 93 ee); Ho 4:17; 8:4 (כֶּסֶף וְזָהָב), 13:2 (כֶּסֶף, ‖ מַסֵּכָה), 14:9; Zc 13:2; 2 Ch 24:18 (+ אֲשֵׁרִים); cstr. עֲצַבֵּי ψ 106:38; 135:15 (כֶּסֶף וְזָהָב); sf. עֲצַבֶּיהָ Is 10:11 (‖ אֱלִילֶיהָ), Je 50:2 (‖ גִּלּוּלֶיהָ), Mi 1:7; עֲצַבֵּיהֶם 1 S 31:9 = 1 Ch 10:9; 2 S 5:21 (but read אֱלֹהֵיהֶם as ‖ 1 Ch 14:12, so 𝔊 We Dr al.), Is 46:1 ψ 106:36; 115:4 (כֶּסֶף וְזָהָב).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: idols (10); the idols (3); images (2).

## In the verses

[Hosea 4:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.4.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.4.17/#tree)

חֲב֧וּר עֲצַבִּ֛ים אֶפְרָ֖יִם הַֽנַּֽח־לֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].joined of.idols Ephraim leave.alone (to) him

*JPS 1917:* Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.

[Psalms 115:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.115.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.115.4/#tree)

עֲ‍ֽ֭צַבֵּיהֶם כֶּ֣סֶף וְזָהָ֑ב מַ֝עֲשֵׂ֗ה יְדֵ֣י אָדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* idols their \[are\].silver and gold \[the\].work of.\[the\].hands of.humankind

*JPS 1917:* Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6091.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6091/): 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).