Idol
פָּסִילStrong’s H6459pesil (pe-sil)
Appears in 31 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pesil is the Hebrew word usually translated “image”, “image of” and “carved image”. It appears in 31 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:”
Meaning
- Image, idol, graven image
How it's translated
- an image 4
- an image of 3
- a carved image 3
- the carved image 3
- an idol 3
- and an idol 2
- carved image of 2
- from idol 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 9
- Judges 8
- Deuteronomy 5
- Jeremiah 2
- Exodus 1
- Leviticus 1
11 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 26:1Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
- Deuteronomy 4:16Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
- Deuteronomy 4:23Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
- Deuteronomy 4:25When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
- Deuteronomy 5:8Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
- Deuteronomy 27:15Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
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.