צֶלֶם tselem
Hebrew word for “image” · Strong’s H6754 · used 17 times in 15 verses
Meaning
1) image; 1a) images (of tumours, mice, heathen gods);
How it is translated
Glosses given for tselem in context, with how often each is used:
- images 10
- image 6
- own image 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Genesis | 5 | 0.2 | |
| 1 Samuel | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Ezekiel | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Psalms | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Numbers | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Kings | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Amos | 1 | 0.5 |
Chapters where it is used most
Genesis 1 (2), 1 Samuel 6 (2), Genesis 5 (1), Genesis 9 (1), Numbers 33 (1), 2 Kings 11 (1), 2 Chronicles 23 (1), Psalms 39 (1), Psalms 73 (1), Ezekiel 7 (1)
Forms
- צלמי 5
- בצלם 3
- וצלמי 2
- צלמיו 2
- בצלמנו 1
- בצלמו 1
- כצלמו 1
- צלמם 1
- צלמיכם 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with tselem more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- מַתָּן mattan “Mattan” 2
- עַכְבָּר akhbar “mouse” 2
- טְחֹר techor “tumor” 2
- דְּמוּת demut “likeness” 2
- נָתַץ natats “to tear” 2
- בַּעַל baal “Baal” 2
- אָדָם adam “man” 3
- זָכָר zakhar “male” 2
- שׂוּם sum “to set” 3
- שָׁבַר shavar “to break” 2
- הָרַג harag “to kill” 2
- זָהָב zahav “gold” 2
Key verses
The verses using tselem that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- 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…
- Genesis 1:27 — So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
- Genesis 5:3 — And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
- Genesis 9:6 — Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
- Numbers 33:52 — Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck…
- 1 Samuel 6:5 — Wherefore 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…
- 2 Kings 11:18 — And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the…
- 2 Chronicles 23:17 — Then 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…
- Psalms 39:6 — Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
- Psalms 73:20 — As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
- Ezekiel 7:20 — As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have…
- Ezekiel 16:17 — Thou 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…
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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.