Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #5566 - סֶמֶל semel (an image)

Original Word:	סֶמֶל
Transliteration:	semel
Definition:	an image, statue
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(seh'-mel)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

figure, idol, image

Or cemel {say'-mel}; from an unused root meaning to resemble; a likeness -- figure, idol, image.

Englishman's Concordance

1) image, statue, idol
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from an unused root meaning to resemble
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1515

Brown-Driver-Briggs

סֶ֫מֶלnoun masculine^{Ezekiel 8:5} perhaps originally proper name, of divinity, then Generally image, statue (Phoenician סמלid., feminine סמלת, Lzb^{151, 329}, also פנסמלת Id³²⁹; Bau^{Rel. i. 88} understands ׳ס to be designation of foreign god); — absolute ׳הַסּ2Chronicles 33:7,15, סָ֑מֶלDeuteronomy 4:16; construct סֵ֫מֶלEzekiel 8:3,5; — image, figure of anything, ׳מֶּסֶל תְּמוּנַת כָּלסֿDeuteronomy 4:16; idol-image׳מֶּסֶל הַסּ2Chronicles 33:7 and (מֶּסֶל omitted) 2 Chronicles 33:15; סֵמֶל הַקִּנְאָהEzekiel 8:3the statue of jealousy, i.e. that rouses ׳י's jealousy,=Ezekiel 8:5.

סמם (√ of following; meaning dubious; if akin to Arabic smell Lane¹⁵⁹³, any fragrant plant Id¹⁵⁹⁴, then ס must be for שׂ; in that case ׳ס perhaps loan-word in Hebrew; Late Hebrew id., spice, drug (Ecclus ׳שׂ Ecclesiasticus 38:4 m.), Aramaic סַמָּאid.; drug, pigment; Arabic poison is apparently loan-word Frä²⁶²).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 5566. סֵ֫מֶל (semel or semel) — 5 Occurrences

Deuteronomy 4:16
HEB:תְּמוּנַ֣ת כָּל־ סָ֑מֶל תַּבְנִ֥ית זָכָ֖ר
NAS: of any figure, the likeness
KJV: the similitude of any figure, the likeness
INT: the form of any figure the likeness of male

2 Chronicles 33:7
HEB:אֶת־ פֶּ֥סֶל הַסֶּ֖מֶל אֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשָׂ֑ה
NAS: the carved image of the idol which
KJV: a carved image, the idol which he had made,
INT: put the carved of the idol which had made

2 Chronicles 33:15
HEB:הַנֵּכָ֤ר וְאֶת־ הַסֶּ֙מֶל֙ מִבֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֔ה
NAS: gods and the idol from the house
KJV: gods, and the idol out of the house
INT: gods the foreign and the idol the house of the LORD

Ezekiel 8:3
HEB:שָׁ֣ם מוֹשַׁ֔ב סֵ֖מֶל הַקִּנְאָ֥ה הַמַּקְנֶֽה׃
NAS: the seat of the idol of jealousy,
KJV: where [was] the seat of the image of jealousy,
INT: in it the seat of the idol of jealousy to jealousy

Ezekiel 8:5
HEB:לְשַׁ֣עַר הַמִּזְבֵּ֔חַ סֵ֛מֶל הַקִּנְאָ֥ה הַזֶּ֖ה
NAS: [was] this idol of jealousy
KJV: of the altar this image of jealousy
INT: gate of the altar idol of jealousy this

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