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Lexicon :: Strong's H6459 - pesel

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פֶּסֶל
Transliteration
pesel
Pronunciation
peh'-sel
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1788a

Strong’s Definitions

פֶּסֶל peçel, peh'-sel; from H6458; an idol:—carved (graven) image.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 31x

The KJV translates Strong's H6459 in the following manner: graven image (28x), carved image (2x), graven (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 31x
The KJV translates Strong's H6459 in the following manner: graven image (28x), carved image (2x), graven (1x).

  1. idol, image

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
פֶּסֶל peçel, peh'-sel; from H6458; an idol:—carved (graven) image.
STRONGS H6459: Abbreviations
פֶּ֫סֶל 31 noun masculineHabakkuk 2:18 idol, image; — absolute פ׳ Judges 17:3 +, פָּ֑סֶל Isaiah 42:17; construct פֶּסֶל Judges 18:31 +; suffix פִּסְלִי Isaiah 48:5, etc.; plural supplied by פְּסִילִים see following; — idol, as likeness of man or animal Exodus 20:4 = Deuteronomy 5:8; Exodus 4:16, 23, 25, also Deuteronomy 27:15; 2 Kings 21:7; 2 Chronicles 33:7; Isaiah 42:17; Isaiah 44:9; Isaiah 48:5; Nahum 1:14; Habakkuk 2:18 (of wood or stone, compare Habakkuk 2:19); of metal Judges 17:3, 4 + 6 times 18 (compare GFM), Isaiah 40:19; Isaiah 44:10 (with נָסַךְ), Jeremiah 10:14; Jeremiah 51:17 (with צוֺרֵף); of wood Isaiah 40:20; Isaiah 44:15, 17; Isaiah 45:20.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

4:16; 4:23; 4:25; 20:4

Deuteronomy

5:8; 27:15

Judges

17:3; 17:3; 17:4; 18:31

2 Kings

21:7

2 Chronicles

33:7

Isaiah

40:19; 40:20; 42:17; 42:17; 44:9; 44:10; 44:15; 44:17; 45:20; 48:5; 48:5

Jeremiah

10:14; 51:17

Nahum

1:14

Habakkuk

2:18; 2:18; 2:19

H6459

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H6459 matches the Hebrew פֶּסֶל (pesel),
which occurs 30 times in 30 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:4 - “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:1 - “You shall not make idols for yourselves or erect an image or pillar, and you shall not set up a figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:16 - beware lest you act corruptly by making a carved image for yourselves, in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:23 - Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make a carved image, the form of anything that the LORD your God has forbidden you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 4:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:25 - “When you father children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the LORD your God, so as to provoke him to anger,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:8 - “‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:15 - “‘Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the LORD, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3 - And he restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, “I dedicate the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a metal image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:4 - So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a carved image and a metal image. And it was in the house of Micah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:14 - Then the five men who had gone to scout out the country of Laish said to their brothers, “Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, household gods, a carved image, and a metal image? Now therefore consider what you will do.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:18 - And when these went into Micah’s house and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:20 - And the priest’s heart was glad. He took the ephod and the household gods and the carved image and went along with the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:30 - And the people of Dan set up the carved image for themselves, and Jonathan the son of Gershom, son of Moses,[fn] and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:31 - So they set up Micah’s carved image that he made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:7 - And the carved image of Asherah that he had made he set 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 the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:7 - And the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 97:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:7 - All worshipers of images are put to shame,
who make their boast in worthless idols;
worship him, all you gods!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:19 - An idol! A craftsman casts it,
and a goldsmith overlays it with gold
and casts for it silver chains.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 40:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:20 - He who is too impoverished for an offering
chooses wood[fn] that will not rot;
he seeks out a skillful craftsman
to set up an idol that will not move.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:17 - They are turned back and utterly put to shame,
who trust in carved idols,
who say to metal images,
“You are our gods.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:9 - All who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:10

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:10 - Who fashions a god or casts an idol that is profitable for nothing?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:15 - Then it becomes fuel for a man. He takes a part of it and warms himself; he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Also he makes a god and worships it; he makes it an idol and falls down before it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:17 - And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, and falls down to it and worships it. He prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 45:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:20 - “Assemble yourselves and come;
draw near together,
you survivors of the nations!
They have no knowledge
who carry about their wooden idols,
and keep on praying to a god
that cannot save.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:5 - I declared them to you from of old,
before they came to pass I announced them to you,
lest you should say, ‘My idol did them,
my carved image and my metal image commanded them.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:14 - Every man is stupid and without knowledge;
every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
for his images are false,
and there is no breath in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 51:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 51:17 - Every man is stupid and without knowledge;
every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
for his images are false,
and there is no breath in them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:14 - The LORD has given commandment about you:
“No more shall your name be perpetuated;
from the house of your gods I will cut off
the carved image and the metal image.
I will make your grave, for you are vile.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:18 - “What profit is an idol
when its maker has shaped it,
a metal image, a teacher of lies?
For its maker trusts in his own creation
when he makes speechless idols!
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