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Lexicon :: Strong's H5566 - semel

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סֶמֶל
Transliteration
semel
Pronunciation
seh'-mel
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to resemble
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TWOT Reference: 1515

Strong’s Definitions

סֶמֶל çemel, seh'-mel; or סֵמֶל çêmel; from an unused root meaning to resemble; a likeness:—figure, idol, image.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's H5566 in the following manner: image (2x), idol (2x), figure (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's H5566 in the following manner: image (2x), idol (2x), figure (1x).

  1. image, statue, idol

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סֶמֶל çemel, seh'-mel; or סֵמֶל çêmel; from an unused root meaning to resemble; a likeness:—figure, idol, image.
STRONGS H5566: Abbreviations
† סֶ֫מֶל noun masculineEzekiel 8:5 perhaps originally proper name, of divinity, then generally image, statue (Phoenician סמל id., feminine סמלת, Lzb151, 329, also פנסמלת Id329; BauRel. i. 88 understands ס׳ to be designation of foreign god); — absolute הַסּ׳ 2 Chronicles 33:7, 15, סָ֑מֶל Deuteronomy 4:16; construct סֵ֫מֶל Ezekiel 8:3, 5; — image, figure of anything, כָּל־ס׳ תְּמוּנַת פֶּסֶל Deuteronomy 4:16; idol-image הַסּ פֶּסֶל 2 Chronicles 33:7 and (פֶּסֶל omitted) 2 Chronicles 33:15; סֵמֶל הַקִּנְאָה Ezekiel 8:3 the statue of jealousy, i.e. that rouses י׳'s jealousy, = Ezekiel 8:5.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

4:16; 4:16

2 Chronicles

33:7; 33:7; 33:15; 33:15

Ezekiel

8:3; 8:3; 8:5; 8:5; 8:5

H5566

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Strong's Number H5566 matches the Hebrew סֶמֶל (semel),
which occurs 5 times in 5 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:16 - so that you do not act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved or sculpted image [to worship] in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:7 - Then he set the carved image of 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 from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My Name [and the symbol of my Presence] forever;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:15 - He also removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, as well as all the altars which he had built on the mountain of the house of the LORD and in Jerusalem; and he threw them outside the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:3 - He stretched out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of hair on my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner courtyard, where the seat of the idol (image) of [fn]jealousy, which provokes to jealousy, was located.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:5 -

Then He said to me, “Son of man, now raise your eyes toward the north.” So I looked toward the north, and behold, to the north of the altar gate was this idol (image) of jealousy at the entrance.

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