semel · image, figure

What it means

semel (סֶמֶל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “image, figure”.

An image made to be worshiped.

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 for worship.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• idol ×3
• statue ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezekiel×2

• 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,

• 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;

• 2 Chronicles 33:15

  He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of YHWH, and all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the house of YHWH and in Jerusalem, and threw them outside the city.

• Ezekiel 8:3

  And he stretched out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my head, and a spirit lifted me between the earth and the heavens and brought me to Jerusalem in visions of Elohim, to the entrance of the gate of the inner court that faces north, where was the seat of the statue of jealousy that provokes jealousy.

• Ezekiel 8:5

  And he said to me, “Son of man, lift up your eyes toward the north.” And I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and look, north of the gate of the altar was this statue of jealousy at the entrance.