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Hebrew

צֶ֫לֶם tse·lem

“image” · 17 times in the Old Testament

Through the Bible

Genesis: 5 timesExodus: 0 timesLeviticus: 0 timesNumbers: onceDeuteronomy: 0 timesJoshua: 0 timesJudges: 0 timesRuth: 0 times1 Samuel: 3 times2 Samuel: 0 times1 Kings: 0 times2 Kings: once1 Chronicles: 0 times2 Chronicles: onceEzra: 0 timesNehemiah: 0 timesEsther: 0 timesJob: 0 timesPsalms: 2 timesProverbs: 0 timesEcclesiastes: 0 timesSong of Songs: 0 timesIsaiah: 0 timesJeremiah: 0 timesLamentations: 0 timesEzekiel: 3 timesDaniel: 0 timesHosea: 0 timesJoel: 0 timesAmos: onceObadiah: 0 timesJonah: 0 timesMicah: 0 timesNahum: 0 timesHabakkuk: 0 timesZephaniah: 0 timesHaggai: 0 timesZechariah: 0 timesMalachi: 0 timesMatthew: 0 timesMark: 0 timesLuke: 0 timesJohn: 0 timesActs: 0 timesRomans: 0 times1 Corinthians: 0 times2 Corinthians: 0 timesGalatians: 0 timesEphesians: 0 timesPhilippians: 0 timesColossians: 0 times1 Thessalonians: 0 times2 Thessalonians: 0 times1 Timothy: 0 times2 Timothy: 0 timesTitus: 0 timesPhilemon: 0 timesHebrews: 0 timesJames: 0 times1 Peter: 0 times2 Peter: 0 times1 John: 0 times2 John: 0 times3 John: 0 timesJude: 0 timesRevelation: 0 timesLawHistoryWisdomProphetsGospelsLetters
  • “idols” 5
  • “images” 4
  • “image” 3
  • “own image” 1
  • “after his own image” 1
  • other ways 3
As a table, book by book
BookTimes
Genesis5
Numbers1
1 Samuel3
2 Kings1
2 Chronicles1
Psalms2
Ezekiel3
Amos1

How the BSB translates it

Each way the Berean Standard Bible puts it into English, and how often.

  1. idols5
  2. images4
  3. image3
  4. after his own image1
  5. form1
  6. like a phantom1
  7. own image1
  8. tumors1

With a pronoun joined

Hebrew joins “me”, “you”, “him” and the like to the end of a word.

Where it occurs

Grouped by how it’s translated, then by book. Each reference opens the verse.

“idols” 5

  • Numbers 1

    • 33:52 …carved images and cast idols and demolish all their…

  • 2 Kings 1

    • 11:18 …They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and they…

  • 2 Chronicles 1

    • 23:17 …They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and killed…

  • Ezekiel 1

    • 16:17 …and you made male idols with which to prostitute…

  • Amos 1

    • 5:26 …Kaiwan your star god the idols you made for yourselves…
“images” 4

  • 1 Samuel 2

    • 6:5 …Make images of your tumors and…
    • 6:11 …containing the gold rats and the images of the tumors…

  • Ezekiel 2

    • 7:20 …to fashion their vile images and detestable idols Therefore…
    • 23:14 …portrayed on the wall images of the Chaldeans engraved…
“image” 3

  • Genesis 3

    • 1:26 …Let Us make man in Our image after Our likeness to…
    • 1:27 …in His own image in the image of God He created…
    • 9:6 …for in His own image God has made mankind…
“own image” 1

  • Genesis 1

    • 1:27 …So God created man in His own image in the image of…
“after his own image” 1

  • Genesis 1

    • 5:3 …in his own likeness after his own image and he named him…
“tumors” 1

  • 1 Samuel 1

    • 6:5 …Make images of your tumors and of the rats…
“like a phantom” 1

  • Psalms 1

    • 39:6 …every man goes about like a phantom surely he bustles in…
“form” 1

  • Psalms 1

    • 73:20 …Lord awaken and despise their form

The Hebrew and Greek words, their glosses and grammar: STEP Bible (CC BY 4.0). The English: the Berean Standard Bible, which also gives which English words render which. Counts are ours.