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Gen. 31:19

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images. Heb. teraphim.

Gen 31:30; Gen 31:32; Gen 35:2; Josh 24:2; Judg 17:4; Judg 17:5; Judg 18:14-24; Judg 18:31; 1Sam 19:13; Ezek 21:21

Ho 3:4

These might have been images devoted to superstitious or idolatrous purposes, as they are termed gods by Laban, in Gen 31:30.

The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan render it, {tzalmanaya,} "images;" the LXX. and Theodoret, [eidolon <See definition 1497|,] "idols;" Aquilla, [morphomata,] "figures;" and the Persian, {asterlabha,} "astrolabes."