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שְׂכִיָּהStrong’s H7914

sekhiyyah (se-khiy-yah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Sekhiyyah is the Hebrew word usually translated “ships of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.”
Isaiah 2:16 KJV
Meaning
  1. Image, ship, craftmeaning very uncertain
How it's translated
  • ships of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    שְׂכִיָּה sekhiyyah · image

    1) image, ship, craft 1a) meaning very uncertain

    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.]

    1. 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
    2. A statue.
    3. An idol; the representation of any person or thing, that is an object of worship.
    4. The likeness of any thing on canvas; a picture; a resemblance painted.
    All definitions and other forms of “image”
    1. Any copy, representation or likeness.
    2. Semblance; show; appearance.
    3. An idea; a representation of any thing to the mind; a conception; a picture drawn by fancy.
    4. In rhetoric, a lively description of any thing in discourse, which presents a kind of picture to the mind.
    5. 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.