A6755 — צֶלֶם (tselem)¶

Core Data¶

Strong's: H6755
Original: צֶלֶם
Transliteration: tselem
Pronunciation: tseh
Part of Speech: masculine noun (n-m)
Root / Cognate: corresponding to H6754 צֶלֶם (tselem), the Hebrew counterpart
Occurrences: 15 unique verses (22 tokens) in OT
Books: 1 (Daniel)
First Occurrence: Dan 2:31 — "Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image"
Hapax Legomenon: No

Lexicon Definition¶

Strong's identifies H6755 as an Aramaic noun corresponding to H6754, glossed "form, image." The local BDB-backed output further shows that the word normally denotes a visible image or statue in Daniel 2-3, but in Dan 3:19 it extends to the "form" or expression of Nebuchadnezzar's face.

Translation Distribution (KJV)¶

Translation	Verses	%
image	7	46.7%
the	5	33.3%
the image	4	26.7%
of the image	2	13.3%
an image	1	6.7%
and the form	1	6.7%
image's	1	6.7%

The raw tool output preserves KJV article-bound fragments such as "the" and possessive forms such as "image's." Read as sense-data rather than English style, the corpus is overwhelmingly image/statue language, with one clear form/visage use in Dan 3:19.

Distribution by Book¶

Book	Count	Per 100 Verses
Daniel	15	4.2

All occurrences are confined to the Aramaic court narratives of Daniel 2-3. The word clusters first around Nebuchadnezzar's dream-statue in chapter 2 and then around the golden image and its commanded worship in chapter 3, with a final figurative extension to the king's facial expression in 3:19.

Semantic Categories¶

1. Monumental Image in Nebuchadnezzar's Dream¶

Dan 2:31 — "Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness [was] excellent, stood before thee"
Dan 2:32 — "This image's head [was] of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass"
Dan 2:34 — "which smote the image upon his feet [that were] of iron and clay"
Dan 2:35 — "the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth"

2. Royal Image Publicly Set Up for Dedication¶

Dan 3:1 — "Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold ... he set it up in the plain of Dura"
Dan 3:2 — rulers are summoned "to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up"
Dan 3:3 — the assembled officials "stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up"

3. Object of Commanded Prostration and Worship¶

Dan 3:5 — "ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up"
Dan 3:7 — "all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down [and] worshipped the golden image"
Dan 3:10 — the decree requires all hearers of the music to "fall down and worship the golden image"
Dan 3:15 — "ye fall down and worship the image which I have made"

4. Image Refused by the Faithful Jews¶

Dan 3:12 — "they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up"
Dan 3:14 — "do not ye serve my gods, nor worship the golden image which I have set up?"
Dan 3:18 — "we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up"

5. Form / Facial Appearance¶

Dan 3:19 — "the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego"

This final use is the semantic outlier in the corpus. The same noun that usually denotes a statue or image is applied here to the visible form or expression of Nebuchadnezzar's face.

Common Collocations¶

Word	Strong's	Co-occurrences	Typical Pattern
דְּהַב (dᵉhab)	H1722	9x	"image of gold" / "golden image"
מֶלֶךְ (melek)	H4430	9x	the king commissions, interprets, or commands regarding the image
קוּם (qûwm)	H6966	9x	the image "stood" or was "set up"
נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר (Nᵉbûwkadnetstsar)	H5020	7x	Nebuchadnezzar as maker and enforcer of the image
סְגִד (çᵉgid)	H5457	7x	"worship the image"
נְפַל (nᵉphal)	H5308	4x	"fall down" before the image

The collocations split cleanly into two clusters: Dan 2 describes the statue's composition and stance, while Dan 3 frames the image as a state-sponsored object of worship.

Word Family / Cognates¶

H6754 צֶלֶם (tselem) — the Hebrew counterpart; used for the image of God, cult-images, representational figures, and abstract "vain shew"

Synonyms¶

No synonym entries were returned by search_relationships.py for this Aramaic lemma.

Antonyms¶

No antonym entries were returned by search_relationships.py for this Aramaic lemma.

Semantic Domains¶

No semantic-domain data was returned by search_relationships.py for this Aramaic lemma.

Easily Confused Words¶

Word	Strong's	Shared Translation	Key Difference
צֶלֶם (tselem, Hebrew)	H6754	image / images	the Hebrew counterpart in Genesis, Psalms, and the prophets; broader range including "image of God" and "vain shew," while H6755 is confined to Aramaic Daniel 2-3
מַצֵּבָה (matstsêbâh)	H4676	image	an erected pillar or standing image; stresses the fixed upright monument more than the broader statue/form sense
סֶמֶל (çemel)	H5566	image	a Hebrew idol-image term in prophetic/idolatry settings; more narrowly cultic than Daniel's court-statue vocabulary
מַשְׂכִּית (maskiyth)	H4906	image / pictured form	can denote pictured work or inward imagery/imagination; H6755 stays concrete except for the single facial-expression use in Dan 3:19

LXX Mapping¶

Greek Equivalent	Strong's	Co-occ	PMI	Notes
εἰκών (eikōn)	G1504	13	9.36	Clear primary lexical bridge for the Danielic statue/image
χρύσεος (chryseos)	G5552	6	5.87	Context-driven from the repeated "golden image" scenes, not a competing equivalent
προσκυνέω (proskyneō)	G4352	6	5.72	Worship-context neighbor from Daniel 3, not a direct rendering of the noun itself

The mapping is dominated by G1504 εἰκών, the same Greek word that bridges to the Hebrew H6754 study. Other high-scoring rows are best read as contextual neighbors produced by the repeated golden-image/worship scenes in Daniel 3.