Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6091
עָצָב
atsabaw-tsawb'
idol
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâtsâb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6091is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 10 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6091
an (idolatrous) image
The King James renders it: 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
atsab is rendered "idol". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.
- Four of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 31:9They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among their people.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among their people.
1 Samuel 31:9עֲצַבֵּיהֶ֖ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in ten of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- idols their6
- idols3
- the idols2
- and to images its1
- idols its1
- idols of1
- images its1
- to idols of1
- to the idols1
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 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 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
- עֲצַבֵּיהֶ֑ם2
- עֲצַבֵּיהֶ֖ם2
- עֲצַבִּ֔ים2
- הָֽעֲצַבִּ֑ים1
- הָֽעֲצַבִּים֙1
- וְלַעֲצַבֶּֽיהָ׃ ס1
- לַעֲצַבֵּ֣י1
- לָֽעֲצַבִּ֑ים1
- עֲצַבֵּ֣י1
- עֲצַבֶּ֔יהָ1
- עֲצַבֶּ֖יהָ1
- עֲֽ֭צַבֵּיהֶם1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural6HNcmpc/Sp3mp
- noun · masculine plural3HNcmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular2HNcmpc/Sp3fs
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural2HTd/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HC/R/Ncmpc/Sp3fs
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmpc
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmpc
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural1HRd/Ncmpa
1 Samuel
one use
They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among their people.
- עֲצַבֵּיהֶ֖םʾatzabeihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: idols their
2 Samuel
one use
There the Philistines abandoned their idols, and David and his men carried them away.
- עֲצַבֵּיהֶ֑םʾatzabeihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: idols their
1 Chronicles
one use
They stripped Saul, cut off his head, took his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temple of their idols and among their people.
- עֲצַבֵּיהֶ֖םʾatzabeihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: idols their
2 Chronicles
one use
They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.
- הָֽעֲצַבִּ֑יםhaatzabimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the idols
Psalms
four uses
They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them.
- עֲצַבֵּיהֶ֑םʾatzabeihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: idols their
They shed innocent blood— the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
- לַעֲצַבֵּ֣יlaatzabeipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to idols of
Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
- עֲֽ֭צַבֵּיהֶםʾatzabeihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: idols their
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
- עֲצַבֵּ֣יʾatzabeinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: idols of
Isaiah
two uses
and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”
- וְלַעֲצַבֶּֽיהָ׃ סvelaatzabeihaconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and to images its
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
- עֲצַבֵּיהֶ֔םʾatzabeihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: idols their
Jeremiah
one use
“Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’
- עֲצַבֶּ֔יהָʾatzabeihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: images its
Hosea
four uses
Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone!
- עֲצַבִּ֛יםʾatzabimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: idols
They set up kings, but not by Me. They make princes, but without My approval. With their silver and gold they make themselves idols, to their own destruction.
- עֲצַבִּ֔יםʾatzabimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: idols
Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”
- עֲצַבִּ֔יםʾatzabimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: idols
O Ephraim, what have I to do anymore with idols? It is I who answer and watch over him. I am like a flourishing cypress; your fruit comes from Me.
- לָֽעֲצַבִּ֑יםlaatzabimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: to the idols
Micah
one use
All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.
- עֲצַבֶּ֖יהָʾatzabeihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: idols its
Zechariah
one use
And on that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of impurity from the land.
- הָֽעֲצַבִּים֙haatzabimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the idols
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.