graven
pronunciation
How to pronounce graven in British English:
UK ['ɡreɪv(ə)n]
How to pronounce graven in American English:
US ['greɪvən]
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- Adjective:
- cut into a desired shape
- cut or impressed into a surface
Word Origin
- graven (adj.)
- "sculpted, carved," late 14c., past participle adjective from grave (v.) + -en (1).
Example
- 1. As they called them , so they went from them : they sacrificed unto baalim , and burned incense to graven images .
- 2. Just as my hands have seized idolatrous kingdoms , whose graven images excelled those of samaria and jerusalem .
- 3. His advice was firmly graven in my heart .
- 4. You shall not make for yourselves idols , nor shall you raise up for yourselves a graven image or a pillar , nor shall you place a stone figure in your land to bow down to it ; for I am jehovah your god .
- 5. Perhaps in fact the reverse is true : that the use of abstract letters may have induced the idea of an abstract god who forbade graven images - but permitted their representation as abstract signs .