Strong's Hebrew · H6754

צֶלֶם

tselem · tseh'-lem

image, vain shew.

Definition

a phantom, i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence, a representative figure, especially an idol

Derivation

from an unused root meaning to shade;

Appears 17 times in Scripture

Genesis 5:3

When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.

Genesis 1:26

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”

2 Kings 11:18

So all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars. And Jehoiada the priest posted guards for the house of the LORD.

1 Samuel 6:5

Make images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lift His hand from you and your gods and your land.

Numbers 33:52

you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

1 Samuel 6:11

Then they put the ark of the LORD on the cart, along with the chest containing the gold rats and the images of the tumors.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

Genesis 1:27

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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