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Deuteronomy 4

Deut. 4:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Lest ye corrupt
shachath (Hebrew #7843)
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: batter, cast off, corrupt(-er, thing), destroy(-er, -uction), lose, mar, perish, spill, spoiler, X utterly, waste(-r).
Pronounce: shaw-khath'
Origin: a primitive root
k yourselves, and make
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
you a graven image
pecel (Hebrew #6459)
an idol
KJV usage: carved (graven) image.
Pronounce: peh'-sel
Origin: from 6458
, the similitude
tmuwnah (Hebrew #8544)
from 4327; something portioned (i.e. fashioned) out, as a shape, i.e. (indefinitely) phantom, or (specifically) embodiment, or (figuratively) manifestation (of favor)
KJV usage: image, likeness, similitude.
Pronounce: tem-oo-naw'
Origin: or tmunah {tem-oo-naw'}
of any figure
cemel (Hebrew #5566)
from an unused root meaning to resemble; a likeness
KJV usage: figure, idol, image.
Pronounce: seh'-mel
Origin: or cemel {say'-mel}
, the likeness
tabniyth (Hebrew #8403)
structure; by implication, a model, resemblance
KJV usage: figure, form, likeness, pattern, similitude.
Pronounce: tab-neeth'
Origin: from 1129
l of male
zakar (Hebrew #2145)
properly, remembered, i.e. a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex)
KJV usage: X him, male, man(child, -kind).
Pronounce: zaw-kawr'
Origin: from 2142
or female
nqebah (Hebrew #5347)
female (from the sexual form)
KJV usage: female.
Pronounce: nek-ay-baw'
Origin: from 5344
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Ex. 32:7• 7Then Jehovah said to Moses, Away, go down! for thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, is acting corruptly. (Ex. 32:7)
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Ex. 20:4‑5• 4Thou shalt not make thyself any graven image, or any form of what is in the heavens above, or what is in the earth beneath, or what is in the waters under the earth:
 5thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah thy God, am a jealous *God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth generation of them that hate me, (Ex. 20:4‑5)

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Graven Image,
Image,
Likeness,
Similitude

Cross References

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Deut. 4:8‑9• 8And what great nation is there that hath righteous statutes and ordinances, as all this law which I set before you this day?
 9Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things that thine eyes have seen (and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but thou shalt make them known to thy sons and to thy sons' sons), (Deut. 4:8‑9)
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Ex. 20:4‑5• 4Thou shalt not make thyself any graven image, or any form of what is in the heavens above, or what is in the earth beneath, or what is in the waters under the earth:
 5thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah thy God, am a jealous *God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth generation of them that hate me, (Ex. 20:4‑5)
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Ex. 32:7• 7Then Jehovah said to Moses, Away, go down! for thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, is acting corruptly. (Ex. 32:7)
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Psa. 106:19‑20• 19They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;
 20And they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass. (Psa. 106:19‑20)
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Rom. 1:22‑24• 22professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
 23and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man and of birds and quadrupeds and reptiles.
 24Wherefore God gave them up also in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies between themselves: (Rom. 1:22‑24)
the likeness.Such as Baal-peor, the Roman Priapus; Ashtaroth or Astarte, the Greek and Roman Venus, and many others.
Deut. 4:23• 23Take heed to yourselves lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a graven image, the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath forbidden thee. (Deut. 4:23)
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Isa. 40:18• 18To whom then will ye liken *God? and what likeness will ye compare unto him? (Isa. 40:18)
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John 4:24• 24God is a spirit; and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth. (John 4:24)
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Acts 17:29• 29Being therefore the offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, the graven form of man's art and imagination. (Acts 17:29)
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Acts 20:4‑5• 4And there accompanied him as far as Asia, Sopater son of Pyrrhus, a Berean; and of Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius and Timotheus of Derbe, and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
 5These going before waited for us in Troas; (Acts 20:4‑5)
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1 Tim. 1:17• 17Now to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only God, honour and glory to the ages of ages. Amen. (1 Tim. 1:17)

J. N. Darby Translation

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lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the form of any figure, the pattern of male or female,