Idol
עָצָבStrong’s H6091atsav (a-tsav)
Appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Atsav is the Hebrew word usually translated “idols their”, “idols” and “idols of”. It appears in 17 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.”
Meaning
- Idol, image
How it's translated
- idols their 6
- idols 3
- the idols 2
- to idols of 1
- idols of 1
- and to images its 1
- images its 1
- to idols 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 4
- Hosea 4
- Isaiah 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 31:9And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.
- 2 Samuel 5:21And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
- 1 Chronicles 10:9And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.
- 2 Chronicles 24:18And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
- Psalms 106:36And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
- Psalms 106:38And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Hebrew dictionary
עָצָב atsav · idol
idol, image
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.