H5566 סֶמֶל (çemel) seh'-mel

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

idol

Strong's Definition

a likeness

Derivation: or סֵמֶל; from an unused root meaning to resemble;

KJV Usage: figure, idol, image.

TWOT Reference: 1515

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) image, statue, idol

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

סֶ֫מֶל (se.mel) — idol. image, statue, idol

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

סֶמֶל (H5566) — סֵמֶל

noun m

Images | Cult Objects

image = a physical likeness or representation of a deity

DEU 4:16 · 2CH 33:7 · 2CH 33:15 · EZK 8:3 · EZK 8:5

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

סֶ֫מֶל n.m. perh. orig. n.pr.div., then gen. image, statue base

Bible Occurrences (5)

4:16

33:7 33:15

8:3 8:5

Deuteronomy 4:16

that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,

2 Chronicles 33:7

Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David... and his son Solomon, In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.

2 Chronicles 33:15

He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.

Ezekiel 8:3

He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth... and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where... the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.

Ezekiel 8:5

Son of man, He said to me, now lift up your eyes to the north. So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of jealousy.