Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
idol
Usage: idol, image
Atsab means “idol” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6091 עָצָב (`atsab) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `atsab (aw-tsawb') n-m. 1. an (idolatrous) image [from H6087] It has 17 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include idols. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`atsab (aw-tsawb') n-m. 1. an (idolatrous) image [from H6087] KJV: idol, image. Root(s): H6087
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idol
Usage: idol, image
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `atsab, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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17 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.
And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.
First 17 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6091.
And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.
And there they left their images, and David and his men burned them.
And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.
And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
Ephraim is joined to idols: let him alone.
They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.
Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.
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.
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6091, grouped by book.
Atsab (Strong's H6091) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "idol". `atsab (aw-tsawb') n-m. 1. an (idolatrous) image [from H6087]
This page currently indexes 17 linked usages for Strong's H6091 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6091 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as idols. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.