Tselem means “image” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6754 צֶּלֶם (tselem) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tselem (tseh'-lem) n-m. 1. a phantom, i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance 2. (hence) a representative figure, especially an idol It has 15 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include image and own. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
tselem (tseh'-lem) n-m. 1. a phantom, i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance 2. (hence) a representative figure, especially an idol [from an unused root meaning to shade] KJV: image, vain shew.
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image
Usage: 1) image 1a) images (of tumours, mice, heathen gods) 1b) image, likeness (of resemblance) 1c) mere, empty, image, semblance (fig.) Aramaic equivalent: tse.lem (צְלֵם "image" H6755)
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15 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And God 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6754.
And God 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
And they laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the LORD.
Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
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Tselem (Strong's H6754) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "image". tselem (tseh'-lem) n-m. 1. a phantom, i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance 2. (hence) a representative figure, especially an idol
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's H6754 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6754 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as image and own. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.