Habakkuk 2:18
Old Testament • 17 words with Strong's data
"What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?"
Word-by-Word Analysis
סָכַן
çâkan
to be familiar with; by implication, to minister to, be serviceable to, be customary
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
חָלַל
châlal
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (...
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...
יָרָה
yârâh
properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by ai...
שֶׁקֶר
sheqer
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
מַעֲשֶׂה
maʻăseh
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
בָּטַח
bâṭach
figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure
שָׁם
shâm
there (transferring to time) then; often thither, or thence
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
גִּלּוּל
gillûwl
properly, a log (as round); by implication, an idol
Key Terms in This Verse
סָכַן çâkan
to be familiar with; by implication, to minister to, be serviceable to, be customary
Study H5532 →יָרָה yârâh
properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach
Study H3384 →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 →Cross References
But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock is a doctrine of vanities.
For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no...
Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These...
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images...
What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esarhaddon h...
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