Words the Bible translates as image
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 12 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- eikōnεἰκώνimage: a representation that not only resembles its original but actually brings it to presence
- homoiōmaὁμοίωμαlikeness: the matching form one thing takes toward another, whether an image made to stand for it or a real sharing of the same condition
- matstsevahמַצֵּבָהa standing stone: an upright stone deliberately set up to mark something that matters.
- tuposτύποςa formed impression and whatever corresponds to it: a mark, a model or pattern, an example to copy, or a foreshadowing of what is to come
- atsavעָצָבan idol: a man-made image set up and worshipped as a false god
- tselemצֶלֶםimage: a concrete, fashioned thing that stands in for and makes present whatever it represents
- tselemצְלֵםa statue: a freestanding, three-dimensional figure set up to be seen
- temunahתְּמוּנָהthe visible shape of something: the outline the eye actually takes in, and therefore the thing an image would have to copy
- charagmaχάραγμαa mark made by cutting or stamping: anything engraved, branded, or carved into a surface
- tsirצִירimagenot studied yet
- tsatsu'aצַעֲצֻעִיםimagenot studied yet
- sekhiyyahשְׂכִיָּהimagenot studied yet
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