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Definition: Graven Image |
Graven ImageNoun1. A material effigy that is worshipped as a god; "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"; "money was his god". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Bible | Graven image Deut. 27:15; Ps. 97:7 (Heb. pesel), refers to the household gods of idolaters. "Every nation and city had its own gods...Yet every family had its separate household or tutelary god." Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
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Graven Image is an album by Jandek (1994). Corwood Industries release #0761.
Track Listing:
Album Cover Description
Of a piece with the cover of the previous LP. Color photo, snapshot quality, taken standing in a driveway looking towards the street with a white house on the left and a telephone pole in the foreground. It seems reasonably certain that this photo was taken at the same time as the Glad to Get Away cover photo and from a vantage point only about twenty feet away (from this, I gather that we are supposed to consider the two albums as a pair). The two visible bushes (one right next to the house, one probably in the neighbors' yard) are somewhat unruly but the very small portion of Jandek's lawn that we can see seems to have been mowed relatively recently. A window on the side of the house is -- surprise! – open a few inches, but the reflection on the glass makes it impossible to tell whether or not the curtain is drawn. There's another white house across the street and a car that looks like it might date back to the early sixties sitting in the street in front of it. The house has an old fashioned stone foundation and the photo generally gives the impression of an ever so slightly run down neighborhood which hasn't changed much in the last 30 years or so. In fact the picture itself could be 30 years old, although the colors don't have the feel of an old photo, they're the kind of colors produced by a cheap present-day camera. The telephone pole in the foreground is a visual stand-in for Jandek himself: silent, anonymous, unmoving, gray-brown. -- Seth Tisue
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Graven Image."
Synonyms: Graven ImageSynonyms: god (n), idol (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Idolatry | Idol, golden calf, graven image, fetich, avatar, Juggernath, lares et penates; Baal. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
graven image | 14 |
graven image tattoo | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "graven image"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | statujë (statue), idhull (Baal, fetish, hero, idol, pippin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | тържествена особа, истукан. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vytesaná modla. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | אלו"י מסכ" (molten image). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | faragott kép. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 彫像 (carved statue, sculpture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ちょうぞう (carved statue, sculpture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | avengray imageay idol (God, idol, image, mumbo jumbo). (various references) кумир (fetish, idol, pippin), идол (fetish, idol). (various references) skromnost (diffidence, moderation, modesty, self-effacement). (various references) dios pagano, ídolo (idol). (various references) avgudabild (idol). (various references) put (cult figure, fetish, God, idol, image, tin god, voodoo), oyma resim (engraving). (various references) thần tượng (icon, ikon, image). (various references) cerfddelw (statue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Isaiah Chapter 44, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | PanteV oi plassonteV qeon kai glufonteV anwfelh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Quis formavit deum et sculptile conflavit ad nihil utile |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Who foormede God, and a grauen thing yetede, to no thing profitable? |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Who hath formed a god, or cast a graven image that is profitable for nothing? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Whoever makes a god, makes nothing but a metal image in which there is no profit. |
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| Language | Isaiah Chapter 44, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | Kinsay nakagkulit sa usa ka dios, kun nakagtunaw ug usa ka larawan nga walay kapuslanan? |
| Chinese | 誰 製 神 像 、 鑄 無 益 的 偶 像 。 |
| Croatian | Tko pravi boga i lijeva kip da od toga korist ne oèekuje? |
| Danish | Når nogen laver en Gud og støber et Billede, er det ingen Gavn til; |
| Dutch | Wie formeert een god, en giet een beeld, dat geen nut doet? |
| Finnish | Kuka hyvänsä muovatkoon jumalan ja valakoon kuvan, ei se mitään auta. |
| French | Qui est-ce qui fabrique un dieu, ou fond une idole, Pour n`en retirer aucune utilité? |
| German | Wer sind sie, die einen Gott machen und einen Götzen gießen, der nichts nütze ist? |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sia-sialah membuat patung tuangan dan menyembahnya sebagai dewa! |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Siapakah merupakan suatu berhala? dituangnya suatu patung yang tiada berguna. |
| Italian | Chi fabbrica un dio e fonde un idolo senza cercarne un vantaggio? |
| Korean | 상 을 만 " 며 무 익 한 우 상 을 부 어 만 " 자 가 누 구 뇨 |
| Maori | Ko wai te kaiwhakaahua o tetahi atua, te kaiwhakarewa ranei o te whakapakoko kahore nei ona pai? |
| Norwegian | Hvem har dannet en gud og støpt et billede - til ingen nytte? |
| Portuguese | Quem forma um deus, e funde uma imagem de escultura, que é de nenhum préstimo? |
| Rumanian | Cine este acela care sq fi fqcut un dumnezeu, sau sq fi turnat un idol, wi sq nu fi tras niciun folos din el? |
| Russian | лФП У"ЕМБМ 'ПЗБ Й ЧЩМЙМ Й"ПМБ, ОЕ ТЙОПУСЭЕЗП ОЙЛБЛПК ПМШЪЩ? |
| Spanish | ¿Quién forma un dios o funde una imagen que para nada aprovecha? |
| Swedish | Om någon formar en gud och gjuter ett beläte, så är det honom till intet gagn. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-g-g-i-m-n-r-v" | |
-2 letters: averaging, garagemen. | |
-3 letters: aggrieve, agreeing, emerging, gravamen, ravaging. | |
-4 letters: anergia, avenger, average, engager, engrave, gearing, germane, germina, graving, greeing, manager, mangier, merging, naggier, reaming, reaving, reeving, regimen, reginae, regiven, reimage, vaginae, veering, verging, vermian, vinegar. | |
-5 letters: ageing, airman, airmen, anemia, arming, avenge, earing, emigre, engage, engram, enigma, enrage, envier, ermine, gaeing, gagman, gagmen, gainer. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 72 61 76 65 6E      49 6D 61 67 65 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01110010 01100001 01110110 01100101 01101110 00100000 01001001 01101101 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G r a v e n   I m a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0072 0061 0076 0065 006E      0049 006D 0061 0067 0065 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41846788718024379677371 |
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