Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6456
פְּסִיל
pesilpes-eel'
idol
23 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pᵉçîyl
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6456is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 21spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6456
an idol
The King James renders it: carved (graven) image, quarry.
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
pesil is rendered "idol". It stands 23 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Five of the uses stand in 2 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 7:5Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-one different ways.
The first use
Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
Deuteronomy 7:5וּפְסִילֵיהֶ֖ם
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in nine 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
- and the idols4
- images of4
- the idols3
- and images their2
- images its2
- and by idols their1
- and images of1
- and to the idols1
- by idols their1
- idols1
- idols their1
- images your1
and 1 more, 23 uses in all
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| פְּסַנְטֵרִין | pesanterin | psaltery | Uses4 |
All 23, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
21 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
- פְּסִילֵ֥י2
- פְּסִילֵ֣י2
- בִּפְסִלֵיהֶ֖ם1
- הַפְּסִילִים֙1
- הַפְּסִילִ֔ים1
- הַפְּסִילִ֗ים1
- וּ֝בִפְסִילֵיהֶ֗ם1
- וְהַפְּסִלִ֔ים1
- וְהַפְּסִלִ֖ים1
- וְהַפְּסִלִ֤ים1
- וְהַפְּסִלִים֙1
- וְלַפְּסִלִ֖ים1
and 9 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural4HC/Td/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)4HNcmpc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural3HTd/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HC/Ncmpc/Sp3mp
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular2HNcmpc/Sp3fs
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncmpc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/R/Ncmpc/Sp3mp
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural1HC/Rd/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HNcmpc/Sp2ms
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcmpc/Sp3mp
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HR/Ncmpc/Sp3mp
Deuteronomy
three uses
Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.
- וּפְסִילֵיהֶ֖םufesileihemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and images their
You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.
- פְּסִילֵ֥יpesileinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: images of
Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.
- וּפְסִילֵ֥יufesileiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and images of
Judges
two uses
But upon reaching the idols near Gilgal, he himself turned back and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” “Silence,” said the king, and all his attendants left him.
- הַפְּסִילִים֙hapesilimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the idols
Ehud, however, had escaped while the servants waited. He passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah.
- הַפְּסִילִ֔יםhapesilimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the idols
2 Kings
one use
So these nations worshiped the LORD but also served their idols, and to this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did.
- פְּסִֽילֵיהֶ֖םpesileihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: idols their
2 Chronicles
five uses
His prayer and how God received his plea, as well as all his sin and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself, they are indeed written in the Records of the Seers.
- וְהַפְּסִלִ֔יםvehapesilimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the idols
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, as his father Manasseh had done. Amon served and sacrificed to all the idols that his father Manasseh had made,
- הַפְּסִילִ֗יםhapesilimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the idols
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
- וְהַפְּסִלִ֖יםvehapesilimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the idols
Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
- וְהַפְּסִלִ֤יםvehapesilimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the idols
He tore down the altars and Asherah poles, crushed the idols to powder, and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
- וְהַפְּסִלִים֙vehapesilimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the idols
Psalms
one use
They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
- וּ֝בִפְסִילֵיהֶ֗םuvifsileihemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and by idols their
Isaiah
four uses
As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
- וּפְסִ֣ילֵיהֶ֔םufesileihemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and images their
Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
- פְּסִילֵ֥יpesileinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: images of
So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
- פְּסִילֵ֣יpesileinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: images of
I am the LORD; that is My name! I will not yield My glory to another or My praise to idols.
- לַפְּסִילִֽים׃lapesilimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: to the images
Jeremiah
four uses
Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”
- בִּפְסִלֵיהֶ֖םbifsileihempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: by idols their
A drought is upon her waters, and they will be dried up. For it is a land of graven images, and the people go mad over idols.
- פְּסִלִים֙pesilimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: idols
Therefore, behold, the days are coming when I will punish the idols of Babylon. Her entire land will suffer shame, and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
- פְּסִילֵ֣יpesileinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: images of
“Therefore, behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish her idols, and throughout her land the wounded will groan.
- פְּסִילֶ֑יהָpesileihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: images its
Hosea
one use
But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.
- וְלַפְּסִלִ֖יםvelapesilimconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and to the idols
Micah
two uses
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.
- פְּסִילֶ֣יהָpesileihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: images its
I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer bow down to the work of your own hands.
- פְסִילֶ֛יךָfesileikhanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: images your
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.