| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The art of painting; representation by painting. 2. (n.) A representation of anything (as a person, a landscape, a building) upon canvas, paper, or other surface, produced by means of painting, drawing, engraving, photography, etc.; a representation in colors. By extension, a figure; a model. 3. (n.) An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief. 4. (v. t.) To draw or paint a resemblance of; to delineate; to represent; to form or present an ideal likeness of; to bring before the mind. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia PICTURE pik'-tur: This word (in the plural) is found 3 times in the King James Version, namely, Numbers 33:52 Isaiah 2:16 Proverbs 25:11. In Numbers and Proverbs "pictures" represents the Hebrew word maskith, "showpiece" "figure." The context in Numbers suggests that the "pictures" or "carved figures" (the Revised Version (British and American) "figured stones") which the Israelites were to destroy were symbols of Canaanite worship and therefore foreign to the religion of Yahweh. In Proverbs for the King James Version "pictures of silver," the English Revised Version has "baskets (the American Standard Revised Version "network") of silver," but a more probable translation is "carvings of silver." "Pictures" stands for a slightly different word (but from the same root) in Isaiah, namely, sekhuyoth; the Revised Version (British and American) renders "imagery" (the Revised Version margin "watchtowers"). The prophet probably alludes to carved figures (of gods in animal or human shapes) on the prows of vessels.
T. Lewis |  | Multi-Version Concordance Picture (6 Occurrences) Mark 4:30 Another saying of His was this: "How are we to picture the Kingdom of God? or by what figure of speech shall we represent it? (WEY BBE NAS) Romans 5:14 But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come. (BBE) Exodus 20:4 You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth: (BBE) 1 Samuel 8:9 Give ear now to their voice: but make a serious protest to them, and give them a picture of the sort of king who will be their ruler. (BBE) Ezekiel 4:1 And you, son of man, take a back and put it before you and on it make a picture of a town, even Jerusalem. (BBE) Ezekiel 23:15 girded with girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. (See RSV) |
