Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5566
סֶמֶל
semelseh'-mel
idol
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çemel
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5566is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5566
a likeness
The King James renders it: figure, idol, image.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
semel is rendered "idol". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in 2 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 4:16that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,
Deuteronomy 4:16סָ֑מֶל
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's five uses are in 2 Chronicles.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- idol of2
- figure1
- the image1
- the sculpture1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַסֶּ֖מֶל1
- הַסֶּ֙מֶל֙1
- סֵ֖מֶל1
- סֵ֛מֶל1
- סָ֑מֶל1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular1HNcmsa
Deuteronomy
one use
that you do not act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves of any form or shape, whether in the likeness of a male or female,
- סָ֑מֶלsamelnoun · masculine singulartagged: figure
2 Chronicles
two uses
Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
- הַסֶּ֖מֶלhasemelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the sculpture
He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.
- הַסֶּ֙מֶל֙hasemelthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the image
Ezekiel
two uses
He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes jealousy was seated.
- סֵ֖מֶלsemelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: idol of
“Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of jealousy.
- סֵ֛מֶלsemelnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: idol of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.