# צֶלֶם (tselem)

Israeli respelling: tse-lem. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H6754. 15 Old Testament occurrences.

a phantom, i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence, a representative figure, especially an idol

King James renderings: image, vain shew.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/tselem-h6754

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 1:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/1/26) — 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 t…
- [Genesis 1:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/1/27) — So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
- [Genesis 5:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/5/3) — And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
- [Genesis 9:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/9/6) — Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
- [Numbers 33:52](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/33/52) — Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten image…
- [1 Samuel 6:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/6/5) — 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:…
- [1 Samuel 6:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/6/11) — 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.
- [2 Kings 11:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/11/18) — 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, a…
- [2 Chronicles 23:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/23/17) — 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…
- [Psalms 39:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/39/6) — 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.
- [Psalms 73:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/73/20) — As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
- [Ezekiel 7:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/20) — 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 ther…
- [Ezekiel 16:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/17) — 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 co…
- [Ezekiel 23:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/23/14) — And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
- [Amos 5:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/26) — But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.