H6456 - פְּסִיל (pᵉçîyl)

H6456 פְּסִיל (pᵉçîyl) pes-eel'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

idol

Strong's Definition

an idol

Derivation: from H6458 (פָּסַל);

KJV Usage: carved (graven) image, quarry.

TWOT Reference: 1788b

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) image, idol, graven image

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

image, idol, graven image Another spelling of pe.sel (פֶּ֫סֶל "idol" H6459)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

פְּסִיל pesý̂yl BDB Definition: 1) image, idol, graven image Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H6458 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1788b Total KJV Occurrences: 25

Bible Occurrences (23)

7:5 7:25 12:3

3:19 3:26

17:41

33:19 33:22 34:3 34:4 34:7

78:58

10:10 21:9 30:22 42:8

8:19 50:38 51:47 51:52

11:2

1:7 5:13

Deuteronomy 7:5

Instead..., this is what you are to do to them:... tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.

Deuteronomy 7:25

You must burn up... the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold [that is] on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 12:3

Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up... their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place....

Judges 3:19

But upon reaching the idols near Gilgal, he himself turned back and said, I have a secret... message for you, O king. Silence, said the king, and all his attendants...... left him.

Judges 3:26

Ehud, however, had escaped while the servants waited. He passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah.

2 Kings 17:41

So these nations worshiped the LORD but also served... their idols, and to this day their children and grandchildren... continue to do as their fathers... did.

2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer and [how God] received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.

2 Chronicles 33:22

And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made,