pesel · carved image

What it means

pesel (פֶּסֶל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “carved image”.

A figure of a god made of wood or stone.

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 of a god made of wood, stone or metal.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• carved image ×29
• carved images ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×5
• Judges×7
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×9
• Jeremiah×2
• Nahum×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Exodus 20:4

  You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any form of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on the earth beneath, or that is in the waters under the earth.

• Leviticus 26:1

  You shall not make idols for yourselves, and you shall not set up for yourselves a carved image or a standing stone, and you shall not put a sculpted stone in your land to bow down on it; for I am YHWH your Elohim.

• Deuteronomy 4:16

  so that you do not act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image in the form of any idol, the representation of male or female,

• Deuteronomy 4:23

  Guard yourselves, so that you do not forget the covenant of YHWH your Elohim, which he made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image, the form of anything, contrary to what YHWH your Elohim commanded you.

• Deuteronomy 4:25

  When you father children and children’s children, and you have grown old in the land, and you act corruptly and make a carved image, the form of anything, and do what is evil in the eyes of YHWH your Elohim, provoking him to anger,

• Deuteronomy 5:8

  You shall not make for yourself a carved image, any form of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is on the earth below, or that is in the waters under the earth.

• Deuteronomy 27:15

  ‘Cursed be the man who makes a carved image or a cast image, an abomination to YHWH, the work of the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

• Judges 17:3

  And he returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother; and his mother said, “I have fully consecrated the silver to YHWH from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a cast image; so now I return it to you.”

• Judges 17:4

  So he returned the silver to his mother, and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave it to the silversmith, and he made it into a carved image and a cast image; and it was in the house of Micaiah.

• Judges 18:14

  Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish spoke up and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and teraphim and a carved image and a cast image? Now consider what you will do.”

• Judges 18:18

  These men went into Micah’s house and took the carved image of the ephod, the teraphim, and the cast image; and the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

• Judges 18:20

  And the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, the teraphim, and the carved image, and went in the midst of the people.

• Judges 18:30

  And the sons of Dan set up for themselves the carved image; and Jonathan son of Gershom, son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the exile of the land.

• Judges 18:31

  So they set up for themselves Micah’s carved image that he had made, all the days that the house of Elohim was in Shiloh.

• 2 Kings 21:7

  He put the carved image of the Asherah that he had made in the house of which YHWH had 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.

• 2 Chronicles 33:7

  He put the carved image of the idol that he had made in the house of Elohim, of which Elohim had 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;

• Psalms 97:7

  Let all who serve a carved image be put to shame, who boast in idols; bow down to him, all you gods!

• Isaiah 40:19

  The carved image? A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold, and chains of silver the goldsmith casts.

• Isaiah 40:20

  The one too poor for a contribution chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks for himself a skilled craftsman to make firm a carved image that will not totter.

• Isaiah 42:17

  They will be turned back, they will be utterly put to shame, those who trust in the carved image, who say to the cast image, ‘You are our gods.’

• Isaiah 44:9

  Those who form carved images, all of them are emptiness, and their desired things do not profit; and their witnesses, they do not see and do not know, so that they will be put to shame.

• Isaiah 44:10

  Who has formed a god and cast a carved image that is of no profit?

• Isaiah 44:15

  And it serves a human being for burning; he takes some of them and warms himself; also he kindles a fire and bakes bread; also he makes a god and bows down; he makes it a carved image and falls down before it.

• Isaiah 44:17

  And the rest of it he makes into a god, his carved image; he falls down before it and bows down and prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”

• Isaiah 45:20

  Gather yourselves and come; draw near together, you who escaped from the nations. They do not know, those who carry the wood of their carved image and pray to a god that cannot save.

• Isaiah 48:5

  I declared it to you long ago; before it came I made you hear it, lest you should say, ‘My idol did them, and my carved image and my cast image commanded them.’

• Jeremiah 10:14

  Every human being has become dull, without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his carved image, for his cast image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

• Jeremiah 51:17

  Every human being has become dull, without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his carved image, for his cast image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

• Nahum 1:14

  And YHWH has commanded concerning you: “No more of your name will be sown; from the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the cast image; I will make your grave, for you are contemptible.”

• 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?