H6458 פָּסַל (pâçal) paw-sal'

Hebrew

Verb (Hebrew)

Quick Definition

to hew

Strong's Definition

to carve, whether wood or stone

Derivation: a primitive root;

KJV Usage: grave, hew.

TWOT Reference: 1788

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) to cut, hew, hew into shape

1a) (Qal) to hew, hew out, quarry

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

פָּסַל (pa.sal) — to hew. 1) to cut, hew, hew into shape 1a) (Qal) to hew, hew out, quarry

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

פסל (H6458)

verb · פֶּסֶל · פָּסִיל

Shape | verb qal

to cut, to carve, to hew = causative action by which humans create objects out of wood or stone

EXO 34:1 · EXO 34:4 · DEU 10:1 · DEU 10:3 · 1KI 5:32 · HAB 2:18

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

פָּסַל vb. hew, hew into shape base

Bible Occurrences (6)

34:1 34:4

10:1 10:3

5:18

2:18

Exodus 34:1

Then the LORD said to Moses, Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

Exodus 34:4

So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals. He rose early in the morning, and taking the two stone tablets in his hands, he went up... Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him.

Deuteronomy 10:1

At that time the LORD said to me, Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

Deuteronomy 10:3

So I made an ark of acacia wood, chiseled out two stone tablets like the originals, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

1 Kings 5:18

So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.

Habakkuk 2:18

What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it — [or] an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation...; he makes idols that cannot speak.