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Strong H6459פֶּ֫סֶל

idol

Transliteration
pesel
Pronunciation
peh'-sel
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

From H6458; an idol: - carved (graven) image.

Detailed definition

idol, image
Also means: pe.sil (פָּסִיל "idol" H6456)

In the Bible

Strong H6459 appears in 31 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • image30
  • graven1

First verses

  1. Exodus 20:4
    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:
  2. Leviticus 26:1
    Ye 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.
  3. Deuteronomy 4:16
    Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
  4. Deuteronomy 4:23
    Take 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.
  5. Deuteronomy 4:25
    When 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:
  6. Deuteronomy 5:8
    Thou 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:
  7. Deuteronomy 27:15
    Cursed 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.
  8. Judges 17:3
    And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.
  9. Judges 17:4
    Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
  10. Judges 18:14
    Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
  11. Judges 18:17
    And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.
  12. Judges 18:18
    And these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?
  13. Judges 18:20
    And the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
  14. Judges 18:30
    And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
  15. Judges 18:31
    And they set them up Micah’s graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
  16. 2 Kings 21:7
    And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
  17. 2 Chronicles 33:7
    And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
  18. Psalms 97:7
    Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
  19. Isaiah 40:19
    The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
  20. Isaiah 40:20
    He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
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