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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 - I say this so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:7 - He put an idolatrous image he had made in God's temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, "This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:15 - He removed the foreign gods and images from the LORD's temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the LORD's temple and in Jerusalem; 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 grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue which provokes to jealousy was located.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:5 - He said to me, "Son of man, look up toward the north." So I looked up toward the north, and I noticed to the north of the altar gate was this statue of jealousy at the entrance.
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