{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H6754",
  "lemma": "צֶלֶם",
  "transliteration": "tselem",
  "definition": "a phantom, i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence, a representative figure, especially an idol",
  "kjv": "image, vain shew.",
  "occurrences": 17,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "צֶ֫לֶם n.m. image",
    "1. images",
    "2. image, likeness, of resemblance",
    "3. fig. = mere, empty, image, semblance"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:26",
      "text": "God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=26"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 1:27",
      "text": "God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 5:3",
      "text": "Adam lived one hundred thirty years, and became the father of a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/5?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 9:6",
      "text": "Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 33:52",
      "text": "then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their stone idols, destroy all…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/33?v=52"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 6:5",
      "text": "Therefore you shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 6:11",
      "text": "They put the LORD’s ark on the cart, and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/6?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Kings 11:18",
      "text": "All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down. They broke his altars and his images in pieces…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/11?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ezekiel 7:20",
      "text": "As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/7?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ezekiel 16:17",
      "text": "You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/16?v=17"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H6754",
  "formats": {
    "html": "https://besorah.bible/word/H6754",
    "markdown": "https://besorah.bible/word/H6754.md",
    "text": "https://besorah.bible/word/H6754.txt",
    "json": "https://besorah.bible/word/H6754.json"
  },
  "credit": "Besorah (https://besorah.bible). Texts and word data are open; terms and licences:",
  "license": "https://besorah.bible/data-licence.txt",
  "credits": "https://besorah.bible/about/credits.html"
}