Idol
פָּסִילStrong’s H6456pesil (pe-sil)
Appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pesil is the Hebrew word usually translated “images of”, “idols” and “images their”. It appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament.
“But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.”
Meaning
- Image, idol, graven image
How it's translated
- images of 4
- and the idols 4
- the idols 3
- and images their 2
- images its 2
- and images of 1
- idols their 1
- and by idols their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 5
- Isaiah 4
- Jeremiah 4
- Deuteronomy 3
- Judges 2
- Micah 2
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 7:25The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
- Deuteronomy 12:3And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
- Judges 3:19But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.
- Judges 3:26And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath.
- 2 Kings 17:41So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children’s children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
- 2 Chronicles 33:19His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּסִיל pesil · idol
image, idol, graven image Another spelling of pe.sel (פֶּ֫סֶל "idol" H6459)
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.