Study it in the app“What does a carved image profit when its maker has carved it, a cast image and a teacher of falsehood, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make mute idols?”
Whatמָהdoes a carved imageפֶּסֶלprofitהוֹעִילwhenכִּיits makerיֹצְרוֹhas carved it,פְסָלוֹa cast imageמַסֵּכָהand a teacherוּמוֹרֶהof falsehood,שָּׁקֶרthatכִּיthe makerיֹצֵרof his workיִצְרוֹtrustsבָטַחin it,עָלָיוto makeלַעֲשׂוֹתmuteאִלְּמִיםidols?אֱלִילִים
carved image
Carved image: a figure of a god made of wood or stone.
Where else “pesel” appearsprofit, be useful
To profit, to be of use, to serve for something.
Where else “hoil” appearsvessel
What someone shapes with his hands, like a clay pot.
Where else “yotsr” appearscarve, hew
Carve, hew stone or wood.
Where else “fesal” appearscast image
An idol made of melted metal.
Where else “masecha” appearsteach
To show someone the way he should go; to instruct him.
Where else “more” appearslie
What is said against the truth in order to deceive, even before a judge.
Where else “shaker” appearsmold
To mold, as God molded man from dust.
Where else “yotser” appearstrust
To rely on someone, YHWH or man.
Where else “vatach” appearsmake
To build or create something.
Where else “asot” appearsmute
Mute.
Where else “ilmim” appearsidol
False gods worth nothing, made by human hands.
Where else “elilim” appears“Idols”: in Hebrew elilim, “worthless things,” which sounds similar to Elohim.
17For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you, and the devastation of the beasts will terrify you, for the blood of human beings and violence done to the land, to the city, and to all who dwell in it.
18 · This verse (above)
19Woe to the one who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ ‘Arise!’ to the mute stone! Will it teach? Look, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.
