Exodus 20:4
“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:This verse in the real world
In what words
- תְּמוּנָהtᵉmûwnâhsomething portioned (i.e. fashioned) out, as ashape, i.e. (indefinitely) phantom, or (spec
- פֶּסֶלpeçelan idol
- אֲשֶׁרʼăsherwho, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, i
- מַעַלmaʻalproperly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from
- שָׁמַיִםshâmayimthe sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move,
- מַיִםmayimwater; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
- אֶרֶץʼeretsthe earth (at large, or partitively a land)
- עָשָׂהʻâsâhto do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.