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se.mel H5566

סֶ֫מֶל (se.mel) means “idol” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

סֶ֫מֶל Hebrew · H5566 5 tagged occurrences in 5 verses

Pronunciation guide: seh'-mel Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H5566

סֶ֫מֶל · se.mel · idol

image, statue, idol

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

or סֵמֶל; from an unused root meaning to resemble; a likeness

KJV glosses: figure, idol, image.

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How translators render H5566

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
and the idol 1
idol 1
image 1
shape 1
the idol 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
and the idol 1
of any figure 1
of the image 1
the idol 1
this image 1

Verses containing H5566

Page 1 of 1. 5 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Deuteronomy 4:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,

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  2. 2 Chronicles 33:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.

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  3. 2 Chronicles 33:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.

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  4. Ezekiel 8:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.

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  5. Ezekiel 8:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of jealousy.

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Sources and text

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