Image
צֶ֫לֶםStrong’s H6754tselem (tse-lem)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tselem is the Hebrew word usually translated “images of”, “image of” and “images its”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.”
Meaning
- Imageimages (of tumours, mice, heathen gods) · image, likeness (of resemblance) · mere, empty, image, semblance (fig.)
How it's translated
- images of 5
- in image of 2
- and images of 2
- images its 2
- in image our 1
- in own image his 1
- according to image his 1
- an image 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 4
- Ezekiel 3
- 1 Samuel 2
- Psalms 2
- Numbers 1
- 2 Kings 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 1:27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
- Genesis 5:3And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
- Genesis 9:6Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
- Numbers 33:52Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
- 1 Samuel 6:5Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
- 1 Samuel 6:11And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
Hebrew dictionary
צֶ֫לֶם tselem · image
1) image 1a) images (of tumours, mice, heathen gods) 1b) image, likeness (of resemblance) 1c) mere, empty, image, semblance (fig.) Aramaic equivalent: tse.lem (צְלֵם "image" H6755)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “image” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
IM'AGE, noun
[Latin imago.]
- A representation or similitude of any person or thing, formed of a material substance; as an image wrought out of stone, wood or wax.“Whose is this image and superscription?” Matthew 22:20
- A statue.
- An idol; the representation of any person or thing, that is an object of worship.
- The likeness of any thing on canvas; a picture; a resemblance painted.
All definitions and other forms of “image”
- Any copy, representation or likeness.
- Semblance; show; appearance.
- An idea; a representation of any thing to the mind; a conception; a picture drawn by fancy.
- In rhetoric, a lively description of any thing in discourse, which presents a kind of picture to the mind.
- In optics, the figure of any object, made by rays of light proceeding from the several points of it.
IM'AGE, verb transitive
To imagine; to copy by the imagination; to form a likeness in the mind by the fancy or recollection.
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.