Strong's Concordance semel: an image, statue Original Word: סֶמֶלPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: semel Phonetic Spelling: (seh'-mel) Definition: an image, statue NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain derivation Definition an image, statue NASB Translation figure (1), idol (4). Brown-Driver-Briggs סֶ֫מֶל noun masculineEzekiel 8:5 perhaps originally proper name, of divinity, then Generally image, statue (Phoenician סמל id., feminine סמלת, Lzb151, 329, also פנסמלת Id329; BauRel. i. 88 understands ׳ס to be designation of foreign god); — absolute ׳הַסּ2Chronicles 33:7,15, סָ֑מֶל Deuteronomy 4:16; construct סֵ֫מֶל Ezekiel 8:3,5; — image, figure of anything, ׳מֶּסֶל תְּמוּנַת כָּלסֿ Deuteronomy 4:16; idol-image ׳מֶּסֶל הַסּ2Chronicles 33:7 and (מֶּסֶל omitted) 2 Chronicles 33:15; סֵמֶל הַקִּנְאָה Ezekiel 8:3 the statue of jealousy, i.e. that rouses ׳י's jealousy, = Ezekiel 8:5. סמם (√ of following; meaning dubious; if akin to Arabic Strong's Exhaustive Concordance figure, idol, image Or cemel {say'-mel}; from an unused root meaning to resemble; a likeness -- figure, idol, image. Forms and Transliterations הַסֶּ֖מֶל הַסֶּ֙מֶל֙ הסמל סֵ֖מֶל סֵ֛מֶל סָ֑מֶל סמל has·se·mel hassemel sā·mel Samel sāmel sê·mel Semel sêmelLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance 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 2 Chronicles 33:15 Ezekiel 8:3 Ezekiel 8:5 5 Occurrences |
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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 סַמָּא id.; 
drug, pigment; Arabic 
poison is apparently loan-word Frä262).