Strong's #5566: cemel (pronounced seh'-mel)

or cemel {say'-mel}; from an unused root meaning to resemble; a likeness:--figure, idol, image.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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semel / sêmel

1) image, statue, idol

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from an unused root meaning to resemble

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Deuteronomy 4:16: "you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,"
2 Chronicles 33:7: "And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God,"
2 Chronicles 33:15: "the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all"
Ezekiel 8:3: "that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy."
Ezekiel 8:5: "northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry."