# סֶמֶל (semel)

Israeli respelling: se-mel. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5566. 5 Old Testament occurrences.

a likeness

King James renderings: figure, idol, image.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/semel-h5566

## Occurrences

- [Deuteronomy 4:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/16) — Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
- [2 Chronicles 33:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/33/7) — And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this…
- [2 Chronicles 33:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/33/15) — And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the hous…
- [Ezekiel 8:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/8/3) — And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and…
- [Ezekiel 8:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/8/5) — Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and b…