pesil · carved image

What it means

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

The figure of a god carved in 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 chiseled in wood or stone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• carved images ×22
• carved idols ×1
• carved image ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×3
• Judges×3
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×5
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×4
• Hosea×1
• Micah×2

• Deuteronomy 7:5

  But thus you shall do to them: their altars you shall tear down, their standing stones you shall break, their Asherahs you shall cut down, and their carved images you shall burn with fire.

• Deuteronomy 7:25

  The carved images of their gods you shall burn with fire. You shall not covet the silver and gold on them or take it for yourself, lest you be ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to YHWH your Elohim.

• Deuteronomy 12:3

  You shall tear down their altars, smash their standing stones, burn their Asherahs with fire, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their name from that place.

• Judges 3:19

  But he himself turned back from the carved images that are at Gilgal and said, “I have a secret word for you, O king.” He said, “Silence!” And all who were standing by him went out from him.

• Judges 3:26

  Ehud escaped while they delayed; he passed the carved images and escaped to Seirah.

• Judges 18:17

  And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went up; they came in there, took the carved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the cast image, while the priest was standing at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

• 2 Kings 17:41

  These nations feared YHWH, and their carved images they served; also their sons and the sons of their sons: as their fathers did, they do to this day.

• 2 Chronicles 33:19

  His prayer and how he let himself be entreated by him, and all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the places where he built high places and set up the Asherahs and the carved images before he humbled himself, they are written in the words of Hozai.

• 2 Chronicles 33:22

  He did what was evil in the eyes of YHWH, as Manasseh his father had done; and to all the carved images that Manasseh his father had made Amon sacrificed, and he served them.

• 2 Chronicles 34:3

  In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, he began to seek the Elohim of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherahs, the carved images, and the molten images.

• 2 Chronicles 34:4

  They tore down before him the altars of the Baals, and the incense altars that were high above them he cut down; and the Asherahs, the carved images, and the molten images he broke and ground to dust, and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

• 2 Chronicles 34:7

  he tore down the altars, and the Asherahs and the carved images he crushed to dust, and all the incense altars he cut down throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

• Psalms 78:58

  And they provoked him to anger with their high places, and with their carved images they made him jealous.

• Isaiah 10:10

  As my hand has reached the kingdoms of the idol, and their carved images were more than those of Jerusalem and of Samaria,

• Isaiah 21:9

  And look, here comes a chariot of men, pairs of horsemen!” And he answered and said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon, and all the carved images of its gods he has shattered to the ground!”

• Isaiah 30:22

  And you will defile the overlay of your carved idols of silver, and the plating of your cast image of gold; you will scatter them like a menstruous cloth; “Out!” you will say to it.

• Isaiah 42:8

  I am YHWH; that is my name; and my glory to another I will not give, nor my praise to carved images.

• Jeremiah 8:19

  Listen! The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is YHWH not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” “Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images, with foreign vapors?”

• Jeremiah 50:38

  A drought upon her waters, and they will dry up! For it is a land of carved images, and over terrors they go mad.

• Jeremiah 51:47

  Therefore, look, days are coming when I will punish the carved images of Babylon, and all her land will be put to shame, and all her slain will fall in her midst.

• Jeremiah 51:52

  Therefore, look, days are coming, declares YHWH, when I will punish her carved images, and throughout all her land the wounded will groan.

• Hosea 11:2

  They called to them; so they went from before them; to the Baals they sacrificed, and to the carved images they burned incense.

• 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.”

• Micah 5:13

  And I will cut off your carved images and your standing stones from among you, and you will not bow down anymore to the work of your hands.