tselem
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tselem
צלמ
Tselem is typically translated as image, but it is literally the shadow, based on the root word, tsel.
This word appears in the phrase “in the image of god”, in Genesis chapter 1.
Also chapter 5, 9, and Numbers 33, Ezekiel 7, Amos 5
However, therea re a number of completely different Hebrew words which seem to mean “image”.
Exodus 20 uses a different word;
1823 demut דמות form
6459 p̄e·sel פֶ֣֙סֶל֙ ׀ a carved image
8544 tə·mū·nāh, תְּמוּנָ֡֔ה likeness
Oddly, Mauro Biglino gives a definition of “cut out”, for 'tselem'.1)
Lexid 6754
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“Descendants of the Gods” lecture on 5th Kind TV
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