atsav · idol

What it means

atsav (עָצָב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “idol”.

An image made by human hands that is worshiped. The word comes from "shape", and it sounds like the word for "pain".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. An image made to be worshiped.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×4
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Hosea×4
• Micah×1
• Zechariah×1

• 1 Samuel 31:9

  They cut off his head and stripped off his weapons, and sent throughout the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to the house of their idols and to the people.

• 2 Samuel 5:21

  They abandoned their idols there, and David and his men carried them away.

• 1 Chronicles 10:9

  And they stripped him and took away his head and his weapons, and sent throughout the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to their idols and to the people.

• 2 Chronicles 24:18

  They abandoned the house of YHWH, Elohim of their fathers, and served the Asherahs and the idols; and there was wrath on Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

• Psalms 106:36

  And they served their idols, and they became to them a snare.

• Psalms 106:38

  And they shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.

• Psalms 115:4

  Their idols are silver and gold, the work of the hands of man.

• Psalms 135:15

  The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of the hands of man.

• Isaiah 10:11

  shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and to her idols, so do to Jerusalem and to her idols?”

• Isaiah 46:1

  Bel bends, Nebo stoops; their idols are for the animals and for the livestock; the things you carried are loaded, a load for the weary beast.

• Jeremiah 50:2

  Declare among the nations and proclaim, and lift up a banner; proclaim, do not conceal it; say, “Babylon is captured, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is dismayed; her idols are put to shame, her idols are dismayed.”

• Hosea 4:17

  Joined to idols is Ephraim; leave him alone.

• Hosea 8:4

  They have made kings, but not from me; they have made officials, but I did not know it; with their silver and their gold they have made for themselves idols, so that it may be cut off.

• Hosea 13:2

  And now they keep sinning, and they have made for themselves a cast image from their silver, idols according to their understanding, the work of craftsmen, all of it; to them they say, “Those who sacrifice human beings, let them kiss calves.”

• Hosea 14:8

  Ephraim: “What have I to do any longer with idols?” I answer and watch over him; I am like a cypress that is green; from me your fruit is found.

• Micah 1:7

  And all her carved images will be smashed, and all her wages will be burned with fire, and all her idols I will make a desolation; for from the wages of a prostitute she gathered them, and to the wages of a prostitute they will return.”

• Zechariah 13:2

  And it will happen on that day, declares YHWH Tsevaot, that I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, and they will not be remembered any more; and also the prophets and the spirit of impurity I will remove from the land.