Biblical Concept: Image
Vocabulary
~l,c, / tselem – shade, shadow, image, likeness
eivkw,n / eikon – a material image, likeness, effigy, a similitude, representation, exact image, resemblance.
Findings
God, man, image, likeness, rule.
Male, female, equal image.
Family, likeness, image.
“in the image of God He made man”
Made, idols, image.
graven image
“they have made a molten image”
Cursed, man, idol, molten image, abomination.
“Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile”
“He also makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image, and falls
down before it.”
Making images work.
Romans 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form
of corruptible
man and of birds and
four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
God’s glory versus
corruptible images.
Foreknew,
predestined, conformed, image of his Son.
Man: image and
glory of God.
“image of the heavenly”
“being transformed into the same image from glory
to glory”
“Christ, who is the image of God”
Colossians 1:15 And He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation.
Jesus: “He is the
image of the invisible God”
New self, renewed
to a true knowledge, image of the One who created him.
“make an image to the beast”
“give breath to the image of the beast”
“torment goes up forever and ever” … “those who worship the
beast and his image.”
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Image
NAS Genesis
1:26 Then God said, "Let Us
make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the
fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all
the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." (God,
man, image, likeness, rule.)
27 And God created man in His own
image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
(Male, female, equal image.)
NAS Genesis
5:3 When Adam had lived one
hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him
Seth. (Family, likeness, image.)
NAS Genesis
9:6 "Whoever sheds man's
blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the
image of God He made man. (“in the image of God He
made man”)
NAS Leviticus
26:1 'You shall not make for
yourselves idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a
figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the LORD your God.
(Made, idols, image.)
NAS Deuteronomy
4:16 lest you act corruptly and make
a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male
or female, (graven image)
23 "So watch yourselves, lest
you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which He made with you, and make
for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything against which the LORD your God has commanded you. (graven image)
NAS Deuteronomy
9:12 "Then the LORD said to
me, 'Arise, go down from here quickly, for your people whom you brought out of
Egypt have acted corruptly. They have quickly turned aside from the way which I
commanded them; they have made a molten image for themselves.' (“they have made
a molten image”)
NAS Deuteronomy
27:15 'Cursed is the man who
makes an idol or a molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the
hands of the craftsman, and sets it up
in secret.' And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.' (Cursed, man,
idol, molten image, abomination.)
NAS Judges
17:3 He then returned the eleven
hundred pieces of silver to his
mother, and his mother said, "I wholly dedicate the silver from my hand to
the LORD for my son to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore, I
will return them to you." (graven image)
4 So when he returned the silver to
his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces
of silver and gave them to the silversmith who made them into a graven
image and a molten image, and they were in the house of Micah. (graven image)
NAS Judges
18:14 Then the five men who went
to spy out the country of Laish answered and said to
their kinsmen, "Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and
household idols and a graven image and a molten image? Now therefore, consider
what you should do."
17 Now the five men who went to spy
out the land went up and entered
there, and took the graven image and
the ephod and household idols and the molten image, while the priest stood by
the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.
18 And when these went into Micah's
house and took the graven image, the ephod and household idols and the molten
image, the priest said to them, "What are you doing?"
20 And the priest's heart was glad,
and he took the ephod and household idols and the graven image, and went among
the people.
30 And the sons of Dan set up for
themselves the graven image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of
Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the
day of the captivity of the land.
31 So they set up for themselves
Micah's graven image which he had made, all the time that the house of God was
at Shiloh.
NAS 1 Kings
15:13 And he also removed Maacah his mother from being
queen mother, because she had made a horrid image as an Asherah; and Asa
cut down her horrid image and burned it at
the brook Kidron.
NAS 2 Kings
21:7 Then he set the carved image
of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and
to his son Solomon, "In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen
from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.
NAS 2
Chronicles 15:16 And he also
removed Maacah, the mother of King Asa, from the position of queen mother, because she had
made a horrid image as an Asherah, and Asa cut down her horrid image, crushed it and burned it at the brook Kidron.
NAS 2
Chronicles 33:7 Then he put the
carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God
had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house and in Jerusalem,
which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;
NAS Psalm
106:19 They made a calf in Horeb,
And worshiped a molten image.
20 Thus they exchanged their glory For the image of an ox that eats grass.
NAS Isaiah
44:9 Those who fashion a graven
image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even
their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.
(“Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile”)
15 Then it becomes something for a man to burn, so he takes
one of them and warms himself; he also makes a fire to bake bread. He also
makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image, and falls down before
it. (“He also makes a god and worships it; he makes it a graven image, and
falls down before it.”)
17 But the rest of it he makes into
a god, his graven image. He falls down before it and worships; he also prays to
it and says, "Deliver me, for thou art my god."
NAS Isaiah
48:5 Therefore I declared them to you long ago, Before
they took place I proclaimed them to
you, Lest you should say, 'My idol has done them, And my graven image and my
molten image have commanded them.' (Making images work.)
NAS Jeremiah
44:19 "And," said the women, "when we were
burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven, and were pouring out libations to
her, was it without our husbands that we made for her sacrificial cakes in her image and poured out libations to
her?"
NAS Daniel
3:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made
an image of gold, the height of which was
sixty cubits and its width six
cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent
word to assemble the satraps, the
prefects and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the
magistrates and all the rulers of the provinces to come to the dedication of
the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
3 Then the satraps, the prefects
and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the judges, the magistrates
and all the rulers of the provinces were assembled for the dedication of the
image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image
that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
5 that at the moment you hear the
sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, bagpipe, and all kinds of
music, you are to fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar
the king has set up.
7 Therefore at that time, when all
the peoples heard the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery,
bagpipe, and all kinds of music, all the peoples, nations and men of every language fell down and worshiped the golden image that
Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
10 "You yourself, O king, have
made a decree that every man who hears the sound of the horn, flute, lyre,
trigon, psaltery, and bagpipe, and all kinds of music, is to fall down and
worship the golden image.
12 "There are certain Jews
whom you have appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon, namely Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. These men, O king, have disregarded you; they do not
serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up."
14 Nebuchadnezzar responded and
said to them, "Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego,
that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up?
15 "Now if you are ready, at
the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, and
bagpipe, and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have
made, very well. But if you will not
worship, you will immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing
fire; and what god is there who can deliver you out of my hands?"
18 "But even if He does not, let
it be known to you, O king, that we are not going to serve your gods or worship
the golden image that you have set up."
NAS Nahum
1:14 The LORD has issued a
command concerning you: "Your name will no longer be perpetuated. I will
cut off idol and image From the house of your gods. I
will prepare your grave, For you are
contemptible."
NAS Habakkuk
2:18 "What profit is the
idol when its maker has carved it, Or an
image, a teacher of falsehood? For its maker
trusts in his own handiwork When he
fashions speechless idols. (All)
NAS Acts
17:29 "Being then the
offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or
silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man. (Divine nature,
image, thought of man, not.)
NAS Acts
19:35 And after quieting the
multitude, the town clerk said, "Men of Ephesus, what man is there after
all who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the temple
of the great Artemis, and of the image which
fell down from heaven?
NAS Romans 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God
for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed
animals and crawling creatures. (All) (God’s glory versus corruptible images.)
NAS Romans
8:29 For whom He foreknew, He
also predestined to become conformed
to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren;
(Foreknew, predestined, conformed, image of his Son.)
NAS 1
Corinthians 11:7 For a man ought
not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the
woman is the glory of man. (Man: image and glory of God.)
NAS 1
Corinthians 15:49 And just as we
have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the
heavenly. (“image of the heavenly”)
NAS 2
Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with
unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the
Spirit. (“being transformed into the same image from glory to glory”)
NAS 2
Corinthians 4:4 in whose case the
god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that they might not
see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
(“Christ, who is the image of God”)
NAS Colossians
1:15 And He is the image of the
invisible God, the first-born of all creation. (All) (Jesus: “He is the image
of the invisible God”)
NAS Colossians
3:10 and have put on the new self
who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who
created him (New self, renewed to a true knowledge, image of the One who
created him.)
NAS Revelation
13:14 And he deceives those who
dwell on the earth because of the signs which it was given him to perform in
the presence of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an
image to the beast who had the wound of the sword and has come to life. (“make
an image to the beast”)
15 And there was given to him to
give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast might even
speak and cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed.
(“give breath to the image of the beast”)
NAS Revelation
14:9 And another angel, a third
one, followed them, saying with a loud voice, "If anyone worships the
beast and his image, and receives a mark on his forehead or upon his hand,
11 "And the smoke of their
torment goes up forever and ever; and they have no rest day and night, those
who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his
name." (“torment goes up forever and ever” … “those who worship the beast
and his image.”)
NAS Revelation
15:2 And I saw, as it were, a sea
of glass mixed with fire, and those who had come off victorious from the beast
and from his image and from the number of his name, standing on the sea of
glass, holding harps of God.
NAS Revelation
16:2 And the first angel went and poured out his bowl into
the earth; and it became a loathsome and malignant sore upon the men who had
the mark of the beast and who worshiped his image.
NAS Revelation
19:20 And the beast was seized,
and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by
which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who
worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which
burns with brimstone.
NAS Revelation
20:4 And I saw thrones, and they
sat upon them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the
testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not
worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark upon their forehead
and upon their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a
thousand years.