Exodus 32:4
Old Testament • 15 words with Strong's data
"And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt."
Word-by-Word Analysis
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
יָד
yâd
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
צוּר
tsûwr
to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)
פִּתּוּחַ
pittûwach
sculpture (in low or high relief or even intaglio)
חֶרֶב
chereb
drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
אַחַר
ʼachar
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
מַסֵּכָה
maççêkâh
properly, a pouring over, i.e. fusion of metal (especially a cast image); by implication, a libation, i.e. league; concretely a coverlet (as if poured...
עֵגֶל
ʻêgel
a (male) calf (as frisking round), especially one nearly grown (i.e. a steer)
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Yisrâʼêl
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
מִצְרַיִם
Mitsrayim
Mitsrajim, i.e. Upper and Lower Egypt
Key Terms in This Verse
חֶרֶב chereb
drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
Study H2719 →צוּר tsûwr
to cramp, i.e. confine (in many applications, literally and figuratively, formative or hostile)
Study H6696 →עֵגֶל ʻêgel
a (male) calf (as frisking round), especially one nearly grown (i.e. a steer)
Study H5695 →מַסֵּכָה maççêkâh
properly, a pouring over, i.e. fusion of metal (especially a cast image); by implication, a libation, i.e. league; concretely a coverlet (as if poured out)
Study H4541 →אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a supe...
Study H430 →אַחַר ʼachar
properly, the hind part; generally used as an adverb or conjunction, after (in various senses)
Study H310 →Cross References
Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;
And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.
Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egyp...
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, w...
Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves that were in Bethel, and that were in Dan.
And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men tha...
And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is d...
Forasmuch 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.
And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for ...
And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:
And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the cal...
With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
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