פָּסִיל pesil

Hebrew word for “idol” · Strong’s H6456 · used 23 times in 23 verses

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Meaning

image, idol, graven image; Another spelling of pe.sel (פֶּ֫סֶל "idol" H6459)

How it is translated

Glosses given for pesil in context, with how often each is used:

• idols 12
• images 11

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Chronicles 34 (3), Deuteronomy 7 (2), Judges 3 (2), 2 Chronicles 33 (2), Jeremiah 51 (2), Deuteronomy 12 (1), 2 Kings 17 (1), Psalms 78 (1), Isaiah 10 (1), Isaiah 21 (1)

Forms

• פסילי 4
• והפסלים 4
• הפסילים 3
• ופסיליהם 2
• פסיליה 2
• ופסילי 1
• פסיליהם 1
• ובפסיליהם 1
• לפסילים 1
• בפסליהם 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with pesil more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אֲשֵׁרָה asherah “Asherah” 6
• גָּדַע gada “to cut down/off” 4
• נָתַץ natats “to tear” 4
• שָׂרַף saraph “to burn” 4
• שָׁבַר shavar “to break” 4
• מַסֵּכָה massekhah “liquid” 3
• מַצֵּבָה matstsevah “pillar” 3
• מִזְבֵּחַ mizbeach “altar” 4
• אֵשׁ esh “fire” 4
• בָּמָה bamah “high place” 3
• חַמָּן chamman “pillar” 2
• זָבַח zavach “to sacrifice” 3

Key verses

The verses using pesil that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 7:5 — But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
• Deuteronomy 7:25 — The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared…
• 2 Chronicles 33:19 — His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven…
• 2 Chronicles 34:3 — For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge…
• 2 Chronicles 34:4 — And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and…
• Psalms 78:58 — For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
• Isaiah 21:9 — And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her…
• Isaiah 30:22 — Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous…
• Isaiah 42:8 — I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
• Jeremiah 8:19 — Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have…
• Jeremiah 50:38 — A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
• Hosea 11:2 — As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.