Idol
סֶ֫מֶלStrong’s H5566semel (se-mel)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Semel is the Hebrew word usually translated “idol of”, “figure” and “sculpture”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,”
Meaning
- Image, statue, idol
How it's translated
- idol of 2
- figure 1
- sculpture 1
- the image 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Deuteronomy 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 33:7And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
- 2 Chronicles 33:15And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
- Ezekiel 8:3And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.
- Ezekiel 8:5Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
Hebrew dictionary
סֶ֫מֶל semel · idol
image, statue, idol
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “idol” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
I'DOL, noun
[Latin idolum; Gr. form or to see.]
- An image, form or representation, usually of a man or other animal, consecrated as an object of worship; a pagan deity.“The gods of the nations are idols” Psalms 96:5
- An image.
- A person loved and honored to adoration.
- Any thing on which we set our affections; that to which we indulge an excessive and sinful attachment.“Little children, keep yourselves from idols. 1” 1 John 5:21
All definitions
- A representation. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.