pasal · carve, hew

What it means

pasal (פָּסַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “carve, hew”.

Stone or wood.

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. Shape stone or wood with a tool.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Cut ×2
• carved ×2
• Carve ×1
• hewed them ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Kings×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Exodus 34:1

  And YHWH said to Moses, “Cut for yourself two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

• Exodus 34:4

  So he cut two tablets of stone like the first ones; and Moses rose early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as YHWH had commanded him, and he took in his hand two tablets of stone.

• Deuteronomy 10:1

  At that time YHWH said to me, “Carve for yourself two tablets of stone like the first ones, and come up to me on the mountain, and make for yourself an ark of wood.

• Deuteronomy 10:3

  So I made an ark of acacia wood and carved two tablets of stone like the first ones, and went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.

• 1 Kings 5:18

  And the builders of Solomon and the builders of Hiram and the Gebalites hewed them and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

• Habakkuk 2:18

  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?