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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, there are 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
Mauro Biglino gives a definition of “cut out” or “cut off”, for 'tselem'.1). Rather than “in his image”, he compares the cutting out of man from the elohim in Genesis 1:26-27, with the parallel cutting out2) of woman from man in Genesis 2:22.
Lexid 6754