Deuteronomy 5:8
“You shall not make a carved image for yourself—any likeness of what is in heaven above, or what 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
- 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.