Jon Collins

You just take a hundred rings and get them into a form of a calf.

You got to melt those things.

So yeah, it's a good point.

So a maseca, a molten image or a graven image, is associated with metalsmiths.

Then, here's some more general terms, but this one's important.

The word selam, which comes from a verb selam, which means to carve or to cut.

So Ezekiel uses this word to describe carved images on like big walls, wall carvings.

Wall engravings?

Mm-hmm, wall engravings, yeah.

Often called relief images or something like that.

This is the word used to describe human beings on page one of Genesis.

We'll come back to that.

The image of God in Genesis 1.

Yep.

So the selim is used about 15 times in the Hebrew Bible.

Okay.

Yeah, the next two are very common, and they're both trash talk.

They're both derogatory words that have an insult built into them.

Love it.

So one is the Hebrew word Elil, which is also a pun because the first two letters of Elil are the word El, which is a shortened form of Elohim, which means deity.