Lexical Summary semel: an image, statue Original Word: סֶמֶלTransliteration: semel Phonetic Spelling: (seh'-mel) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: an image, statue Meaning: an image, statue Strong's Concordance figure, idol, image Or cemel {say'-mel}; from an unused root meaning to resemble; a likeness -- figure, idol, image. Brown-Driver-Briggs H5566. semel 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 ׳הַסּ2 Chronicles 33:7, 15, סָ֑מֶל Deuteronomy 4:16; construct סֵ֫מֶל Ezekiel 8:3, 5; — image, figure of anything, כָּלסֿ תְּמוּנַת ׳מֶּסֶל Deuteronomy 4:16; idol-image הַסּ ׳מֶּסֶל2 Chronicles 33:7 and (מֶּסֶל omitted) 33:15; הַקִּנְאָה סֵמֶל Ezekiel 8:3 the statue of jealousy, i.e. that rouses ׳י's jealousy, = 8:5. סמם (√ of following; meaning dubious; if akin to Arabic 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). |
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