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# פָּסַל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6458

**hew** — used 6 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

hew [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6458/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּסַל: vb. hew, hew into shape [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6458/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. hew, hew into shape (NH Pi. hew off boughs; Aramaic פְּסַל, ܦܣܰܠ = BH; Nab. פסלא stone-cutter);— Pf. 3 ms. sf. פְּסָלוֹ Hb 2:18; Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּפְסֹל Ex 34:4, etc.; Imv. ms. פְּסָל־ Ex 34:1; Dt 10:1;—hew out stone tablets Ex 34:1, 4; Dt 10:1, 3; building-stones 1 K 5:32; c. cogn. acc. (sf. referring to פֶּסֶל) Hb 2:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: cut out (2); I cut out (1); he (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 5:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.5.32/#tree)

וַֽיִּפְסְל֞וּ בֹּנֵ֧י שְׁלֹמֹ֛ה וּבֹנֵ֥י חִיר֖וֹם וְהַגִּבְלִ֑ים וַיָּכִ֛ינוּ הָעֵצִ֥ים וְהָאֲבָנִ֖ים לִבְנ֥וֹת הַבָּֽיִת׃פ

*Word for word:* and they.cut.\[them\].out the.builders of.Solomon and the.builders of.Hiram and the Gebalites and they.prepared the wood(s) and the stones to build the house

*JPS 1917:* And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders and the Gebalites did fashion them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

[Habakkuk 2:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HAB.2.18/#tree)

מָֽה־הוֹעִ֣יל פֶּ֗סֶל כִּ֤י פְסָלוֹ֙ יֹֽצְר֔וֹ מַסֵּכָ֖ה וּמ֣וֹרֶה שָּׁ֑קֶר כִּ֣י בָטַ֞ח יֹצֵ֤ר יִצְרוֹ֙ עָלָ֔יו לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת אֱלִילִ֥ים אִלְּמִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* what? does.it.profit a.carved.image (dm) he has.carved.it \[the one.who\].formed.it a.molten.image and \[that.which\].teaches falsehood (dm) he.relies \[the.one.who\].formed form its on it to make idols dumb

*JPS 1917:* What profiteth the graven image, that the maker thereof hath graven it, even the molten image, and the teacher of lies; that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6458.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6458/): 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).