Graven image

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

graven image
    n 1: a material effigy that is worshipped; "thou shalt not make
         unto thee any graven image"; "money was his god" [syn:
         {idol}, {graven image}, {god}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Graven \Grav"en\, p. p. of {Grave}, v. t.
   Carved.
   [1913 Webster]

   {Graven image}, an idol; an object of worship carved from
      wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any
      graven image." --Ex. xx. 4.
      [1913 Webster]

from Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

Graven image
Deut. 27:15; Ps. 97:7 (Heb. pesel), refers to the household gods
of idolaters. "Every nation and city had its own gods...Yet
every family had its separate household or tutelary god."

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