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单词 graven image
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Definition of graven image in English:

graven image

nounɡreɪvnˈɪmɪdʒˈɡreɪvən ˈɪmɪdʒ
  • A carved idol or representation of a god used as an object of worship.

    (供膜拜的)雕像,神像

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Now he doesn't tell people that these images are gods, per se, but he clearly violates the commandment against graven images.
    • Thus the Golden Calf led to the Mosaic injunction in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: ‘Thou shalt not bow down to graven images!’
    • The Russian Orthodox Church had long forbidden the creation of sculpture in the round as contravening the biblical prohibition against graven images.
    • The Second Commandment extends that prohibition to veneration of material objects - it forbids ‘bowing down to’ or worshipping graven images of any kind.
    • Both embody the commandments to have no other gods before the Lord and neither to make nor worship graven images.
    • Characters insist time and again that they are not pagans who pray to graven images.
    • The First Commandment reveals all kinds of idols - not simply graven images but common ‘gods,’ like money or fame, and more complicated ones, like works-righteousness.
    • Our supreme temptation today is not idol worship of graven images so much as settling for the good rather than striving for the best.
    • Such icons, or graven images, are held in awe by the followers of the respective faiths.
    • We have not retained the commandment against making graven images because it is no longer relevant.
    • What follows, of course, are the rules against other gods, graven images, vain swearing, and Sabbath breaking.
    • The religious justification derives from the ban on graven images, common to the jealous God of the Old Testament and to Allah.
    • The chosen people were not to have any other gods, make graven images or take God's name in vain.
    • He also denounced the creation of any graven images, whether of himself or of the other prophets.
    • There have also been documented examples of Him smiting those caught worshipping graven images.
    • Siona often wondered whether a painted image was the same thing as a graven image.
    • One of the Ten Commandments is that you shall not make any graven image.
    • The Old Testament forbade the making of ‘any graven image, nor the likeness of anything that is in heaven above nor in the earth below’.
    • The church had interpreted the biblical prohibition against graven images to forbid the creation of sculpture in the round until the early eighteenth century.
    • For the early Hebrews God was not in the objects of Nature themselves, hence the outlawing of idols and the construction of graven images.

Origin

With biblical allusion to Exod. 20:4.

Definition of graven image in US English:

graven image

nounˈɡreɪvən ˈɪmɪdʒ
  • A carved idol or representation of a god used as an object of worship.

    (供膜拜的)雕像,神像

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The church had interpreted the biblical prohibition against graven images to forbid the creation of sculpture in the round until the early eighteenth century.
    • He also denounced the creation of any graven images, whether of himself or of the other prophets.
    • The First Commandment reveals all kinds of idols - not simply graven images but common ‘gods,’ like money or fame, and more complicated ones, like works-righteousness.
    • The Second Commandment extends that prohibition to veneration of material objects - it forbids ‘bowing down to’ or worshipping graven images of any kind.
    • The religious justification derives from the ban on graven images, common to the jealous God of the Old Testament and to Allah.
    • One of the Ten Commandments is that you shall not make any graven image.
    • Our supreme temptation today is not idol worship of graven images so much as settling for the good rather than striving for the best.
    • Siona often wondered whether a painted image was the same thing as a graven image.
    • The Russian Orthodox Church had long forbidden the creation of sculpture in the round as contravening the biblical prohibition against graven images.
    • Characters insist time and again that they are not pagans who pray to graven images.
    • The chosen people were not to have any other gods, make graven images or take God's name in vain.
    • Such icons, or graven images, are held in awe by the followers of the respective faiths.
    • What follows, of course, are the rules against other gods, graven images, vain swearing, and Sabbath breaking.
    • For the early Hebrews God was not in the objects of Nature themselves, hence the outlawing of idols and the construction of graven images.
    • Now he doesn't tell people that these images are gods, per se, but he clearly violates the commandment against graven images.
    • Thus the Golden Calf led to the Mosaic injunction in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: ‘Thou shalt not bow down to graven images!’
    • We have not retained the commandment against making graven images because it is no longer relevant.
    • Both embody the commandments to have no other gods before the Lord and neither to make nor worship graven images.
    • The Old Testament forbade the making of ‘any graven image, nor the likeness of anything that is in heaven above nor in the earth below’.
    • There have also been documented examples of Him smiting those caught worshipping graven images.

Origin

With biblical allusion to Exod. 20:4.

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