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# פָּסִיל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6456

**idol** — used 23 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/1508/6456/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּסִיל: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6456/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Dt 7:25 id.;—pl. (פֶּ֫סֶל serving as sg.) פְּסִילִים Ju 3:19 +; פְּסִלִים Ho 11:2 +; cstr. פְּסִילֵי Je 51:47 +; sf. פְּסִילֶיךָ Mi 5:12, etc.;—idols, Ho 11:2; Is 10:10 + 10 times, + (of wood, c. שָׂרַף) Dt 7:5, 25, so (c. גִּדַּע) 12:3; of stone Is 21:9 (c. שִׁבַּר), Ju 3:19, 26 (cf. GFM), stone or metal Mi 1:7; 2 Ch 34:7 (כִּתַּת), cf. v 3, 4; (sheathed with) silver Is 30:22.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: idols (11); images (6); the images (4).

## In the verses

[Psalms 78:58](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.58/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.58/#tree)

וַיַּכְעִיס֥וּהוּ בְּבָמוֹתָ֑ם וּ֝בִפְסִילֵיהֶ֗ם יַקְנִיאֽוּהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and they provoked.him.to.anger by their.high places and by idols their they made.him.jealous

*JPS 1917:* For they provoked Him with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images.

[Jeremiah 50:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.50.38/#tree)

חֹ֥רֶב אֶל־מֵימֶ֖יהָ וְיָבֵ֑שׁוּ כִּ֣י אֶ֤רֶץ פְּסִלִים֙ הִ֔יא וּבָאֵימִ֖ים יִתְהֹלָֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* a.drought against waters its and they.will.dry.up (dm) \[is\].a.land of.idols it and in (the) terrors they.will.act.like.mad.people

*JPS 1917:* A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad upon things of horror.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6456.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6456/): 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).