Image
צְלֵםStrong’s H6755tselem (tse-lem)
Appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tselem is the Aramaic word usually translated “image the”, “image of” and “image”. It appears in 15 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.”
Meaning
- Image, idol
How it's translated
- image the 7
- to image of 3
- and to image of 3
- an image 2
- to image the 1
- and image of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 15
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:32In contextThis image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass,
- Daniel 2:34In contextThou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
- Daniel 2:35In contextThen was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.
- Daniel 3:1In contextNebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.
- Daniel 3:2In contextThen Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
- Daniel 3:3In contextThen the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
Aramaic dictionary
צְלֵם tselem · image
image, idol Aramaic of tse.lem (צֶ֫לֶם "image" H6754)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.