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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• 7And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: (Ex. 32:7)
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Ex. 20:4‑5• 4Thou 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:
 5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and 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 nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous 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 which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons; (Deut. 4:8‑9)
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Ex. 20:4‑5• 4Thou 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:
 5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; (Ex. 20:4‑5)
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Ex. 32:7• 7And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves: (Ex. 32:7)
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Psa. 106:19‑20• 19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
 20Thus 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 uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
 24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own 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 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. (Deut. 4:23)
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Isa. 40:18• 18To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? (Isa. 40:18)
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John 4:24• 24God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John 4:24)
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Acts 17:29• 29Forasmuch 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. (Acts 17:29)
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Acts 20:4‑5• 4And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
 5These going before tarried for us at Troas. (Acts 20:4‑5)
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1 Tim. 1:17• 17Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. 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,