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Lexicon :: Strong's H5566 - semel

Aa
סֶמֶל
Transliteration
semel
Pronunciation
seh'-mel
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to resemble
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TWOT Reference: 1515

Strong’s Definitions

סֶמֶל çemel, seh'-mel; or סֵמֶל çêmel; from an unused root meaning to resemble; a likeness:—figure, idol, image.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x

The KJV translates Strong's H5566 in the following manner: image (2x), idol (2x), figure (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 5x
The KJV translates Strong's H5566 in the following manner: image (2x), idol (2x), figure (1x).

  1. image, statue, idol

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סֶמֶל çemel, seh'-mel; or סֵמֶל çêmel; from an unused root meaning to resemble; a likeness:—figure, idol, image.
STRONGS H5566: Abbreviations
† סֶ֫מֶל noun masculineEzekiel 8:5 perhaps originally proper name, of divinity, then generally image, statue (Phoenician סמל id., feminine סמלת, Lzb151, 329, also פנסמלת Id329; BauRel. i. 88 understands ס׳ to be designation of foreign god); — absolute הַסּ׳ 2 Chronicles 33:7, 15, סָ֑מֶל Deuteronomy 4:16; construct סֵ֫מֶל Ezekiel 8:3, 5; — image, figure of anything, כָּל־ס׳ תְּמוּנַת פֶּסֶל Deuteronomy 4:16; idol-image הַסּ פֶּסֶל 2 Chronicles 33:7 and (פֶּסֶל omitted) 2 Chronicles 33:15; סֵמֶל הַקִּנְאָה Ezekiel 8:3 the statue of jealousy, i.e. that rouses י׳'s jealousy, = Ezekiel 8:5.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Deuteronomy

4:16; 4:16

2 Chronicles

33:7; 33:7; 33:15; 33:15

Ezekiel

8:3; 8:3; 8:5; 8:5; 8:5

H5566

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Strong's Number H5566 matches the Hebrew סֶמֶל (semel),
which occurs 5 times in 5 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:16 - So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:7 - And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:15 - He took away the strange gods and the image out of the house of the Lord, and all the altars he had put up on the hill of the Lord's house and in Jerusalem, and put them out of the town.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:3 - And he put out the form of a hand and took me by the hair of my head; and the wind, lifting me up between the earth and the heaven, took me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the way into the inner door facing to the north; where was the seat of the image of envy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:5 - Then he said to me, Son of man, now let your eyes be lifted up in the direction of the north; and on looking in the direction of the north, to the north of the doorway of the altar, I saw this image of envy by the way in.
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