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Easton's Bible Dictionary

Graven image

Deuteronomy 27:15; Psalm 97:7 (Hebrews pesel), refers to the household gods of idolaters. "Every nation and city had its own gods...Yet every family had its separate household or tutelary god."

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (p. p.) of Grave.

2. (v. t.) Carved.

Greek

5480. charagma -- a stamp, impress
... stamp, mark. From the same as charax; a scratch or etching, ie Stamp (as a badge
of servitude), or scupltured figure (statue) -- graven, mark. see GREEK charax. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

6459. pesel -- an idol, image
... Word Origin from pasal Definition an idol, image NASB Word Usage carved image (2),
graven image (14), graven images (1), idol (10), idols (3), image (1). ...
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6456. pasil -- an idol, image
... Word Origin from pasal Definition an idol, image NASB Word Usage carved images
(6), engraved images (1), graven images (7), idols (8), images (1). ...
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2801. charath -- to grave, engrave
... root Definition to grave, engrave NASB Word Usage engraved (1). graven. A primitive
root; to engrave -- graven. 2800, 2801. charath. 2802 . Strong's Numbers
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2790. charash -- to cut in, engrave, plow, devise
... altogether, cease, conceal, be deaf, devise, ear, graven, imagine, A primitive
root; to scratch, ie (by implication) to engrave, plough ...
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Library

Whether the Precepts of the Decalogue are Suitably Distinguished ...
... any graven thing," etc. belongs to worship. Therefore these are not one precept,
as Augustine asserts (Qq. in Exod. qu. lxxi), but two. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the precepts of the.htm

The Writing on God's Hands
... THE WRITING ON GOD'S HANDS. 'Behold! I have graven thee upon the palms of My
hands; thy walls are continually before Me.'"Isaiah 49:16. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the writing on gods hands.htm

"Destroyed for Lack of Knowledge"
... good heed unto yourselves," was the counsel given; "lest ye corrupt yourselves,
and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure," "and lest thou lift ...
/.../white/the story of prophets and kings/chapter 24 destroyed for lack.htm

Precepts from the Prophetic Books.
... Jeremiah, indeed, said: "Every man is brutishly gone astray from the knowledge of
Him; every founder is confounded by his graven images; in vain the ...
/.../theophilus/theophilus to autolycus/chapter xxxv precepts from the prophetic.htm

Whether the Image of Christ Should be Adored with the Adoration of ...
... seem that Christ's image should not be adored with the adoration of "latria." For
it is written (Ex.20:4): "Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the image of christ.htm

He Explains the Phrase "The Lord Created Me," and the Argument ...
... For when the prophet, speaking in the person of God, had said, "My glory will I
not give to another," he added, "neither My praise to graven images." For when ...
/.../gregory/gregory of nyssa dogmatic treatises etc/section 10 he explains the.htm

The Second Commandment
... Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that
is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water ...
/.../watson/the ten commandments/2 2 the second commandment.htm

But not yet About the Good to be Got from Martyrdom must we Learn. ...
... Ye shall overthrow all their altars, ye shall overturn and break in pieces their
pillars, and cut down their groves, and burn with fire the graven images of ...
/.../scorpiace antidote for the scorpions sting/chapter ii but not yet.htm

Impiety of Attributing a visible Form to God. --The Setting up of ...
... for himself alone, when he comes to show what kind of worship he approves and rejects,
he immediately adds, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or ...
/.../the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 11 impiety of attributing.htm

On the Second Command in the Decalogue
... This command is negative: A deed which is displeasing to God is forbidden in these
words: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 2/disputation lxxv on the second.htm

Thesaurus

Graven (61 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary Graven image. ... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (pp) of Grave.
2. (vt) Carved. Multi-Version Concordance Graven (61 Occurrences). ...
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Ashe'rim (19 Occurrences)
... thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces
their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their graven images with ...
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Asherahs (23 Occurrences)
... 5 But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and shatter
their statues, and hew down their Asherahs, and burn their graven images with ...
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Quarries (4 Occurrences)
... Judges 3:19), from which Ehud turned back for the purpose of carrying out his design
to put Eglon king of Moab to death, were probably the "graven images" (as ...
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Shrines (40 Occurrences)
... 7:5 But thus thou dost to them: their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars
ye shiver, and their shrines ye cut down, and their graven images ye ...
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Similitude (18 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 4:16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the
similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, (KJV WBS YLT). ...
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Refiner (10 Occurrences)
... And he giveth back the money to his mother, and his mother taketh two hundred
silverlings, and giveth them to a refiner, and he maketh them a graven image, and ...
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Groves (32 Occurrences)
... 7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down
their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with ...
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Statues (7 Occurrences)
... 5 But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and shatter
their statues, and hew down their Asherahs, and burn their graven images with ...
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Asherah (40 Occurrences)
... These images were also sometimes made of silver or of carved stone (2 Kings
21:7; "the graven image of Asherah, " RV). (see GROVE .). Int. ...
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Bible Concordance

Graven (61 Occurrences)

Acts 17:29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS)

Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Exodus 32:16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Exodus 39:6 And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
(KJV JPS ASV WBS)

Leviticus 26:1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
(KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)

Deuteronomy 4:16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 4:23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 4:25 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Deuteronomy 5:8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Deuteronomy 7:5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 7:25 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Deuteronomy 12:3 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Deuteronomy 27:15 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Judges 3:19 and he himself hath turned back from the graven images which 'are' at Gilgal, and saith, 'A secret word I have unto thee, O king;' and he saith, 'Hush!' and go out from him do all those standing by him.
(YLT)

Judges 17:4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Judges 18:14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Judges 18:17 And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Judges 18:18 And when these went into Micah's house, and fetched the graven image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said unto them, What do ye?
(ASV DBY JPS YLT NAS RSV)

Judges 18:20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Judges 18:30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Judges 18:31 And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

1 Kings 6:35 And he carved thereon cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted upon the graven work.
(ASV JPS)

2 Kings 17:41 So these nations feared the LORD, and served their graven images, both their children, and their children's children: as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

2 Kings 21:7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

2 Chronicles 33:7 And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
(ASV DBY JPS YLT)

2 Chronicles 33:19 His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

2 Chronicles 33:22 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed unto all the graven images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.
(ASV DBY JPS YLT)

2 Chronicles 34:3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images.
(ASV DBY JPS YLT RSV)

2 Chronicles 34:4 And they brake down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.
(ASV DBY JPS YLT RSV)

2 Chronicles 34:7 And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Job 19:23 Who doth grant now, That my words may be written? Who doth grant that in a book they may be graven?
(YLT)

Job 19:24 That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS RSV)

Psalms 78:58 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Psalms 97:7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Isaiah 10:10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Isaiah 21:9 And, behold, here cometh a chariot of men, with a couple of horsemen. And he answered and said, Babylon is fallen, is fallen; and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Isaiah 30:22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Isaiah 40:19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
(KJV DBY WBS YLT)

Isaiah 40:20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
(KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Isaiah 42:8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Isaiah 42:17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Isaiah 44:9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Isaiah 44:10 Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
(KJV DBY WBS)

Isaiah 44:15 Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Isaiah 44:17 And the residue thereof he maketh a god, even his graven image: he falleth down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth unto it, and saith, Deliver me; for thou art my god.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)

Isaiah 45:20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Isaiah 48:5 I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Isaiah 49:16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Jeremiah 8:19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities?
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)

Jeremiah 10:14 Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Jeremiah 17:1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Jeremiah 50:38 A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Jeremiah 51:17 Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
(KJV JPS DBY WBS YLT)

Jeremiah 51:47 Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Jeremiah 51:52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Ezekiel 4:1 And thou, son of man, take to thee a brick, and thou hast put it before thee, and hast graven on it a city -- Jerusalem,
(YLT)

Hosea 11:2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Micah 1:7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Micah 5:13 Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Nahum 1:14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)

Habakkuk 2:18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
(KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT)

Subtopics

Graven

Graven Images

Related Terms

Ashe'rim (19 Occurrences)

Asherahs (23 Occurrences)

Quarries (4 Occurrences)

Shrines (40 Occurrences)

Similitude (18 Occurrences)

Refiner (10 Occurrences)

Groves (32 Occurrences)

Statues (7 Occurrences)