H6754 צֶלֶם
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 17 KJV occurrences
צֶלֶם
tselem · tseh'-lem
Definition
a phantom, i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence, a representative figure, especially an idol
KJV Renderings
image, vain shew.
Derivation / Etymology
from an unused root meaning to shade;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 17)
- Genesis 1:26¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- Genesis 1:27So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
- Genesis 9:6Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
- 1 Samuel 6:5Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
- 1 Samuel 6:11And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
- 2 Chronicles 23:17Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
- Psalms 73:20As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
- Ezekiel 16:17Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,