Limitless Word
צֶלֶםtselem/tseh'-lem/
HebrewH675417 occurrences (KJV)

a phantom, i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence, a representative figure, especially an idol

KJV renders it: image, vain shew.

Where it appears(showing the first 15 of 17)

  • Gen 1:26God 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 birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
  • Gen 1:27God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
  • Gen 5:3Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
  • Gen 9:6Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
  • Num 33:52then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.
  • 1 Sam 6:5Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will release his hand from you, from your gods, and from your land.
  • 1 Sam 6:11They put Yahweh’s ark on the cart, and the coffer with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.
  • 2 Kgs 11:18All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down; his altars and his images broke they in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over Yahweh’s house.
  • 2 Chr 23:17All the people went to the house of Baal, broke it down, broke his altars and his images in pieces, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
  • Ps 39:6“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
  • Ps 73:20As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.
  • Ezek 7:20As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.
  • Ezek 16:17You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and played the prostitute with them.
  • Ezek 23:14“She increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
  • Amos 5:26You also carried the tent of your king and the shrine of your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.