1Sa 19:13 And Michal took an image [read: teraphim], and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.

1Sa 19:16 And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image [read: teraphim] in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster.

H8655

t^{era^phi^ym}

ter-aw-feme'

Plural perhaps from H7495; a healer; Teraphim (singular or plural) a family idol: - idols (-atry), images, teraphim.

H3523

k^{ebi^yr}

keb-eer

From H3527 in the original sense of plaiting; a matrass (of intertwined materials): - pillow.

H4763

m^{era'a?sha^h}

mer-ah-ash-aw'

Formed like H4761; properly a headpiece, that is, (plural for adverb) at (or as) the head rest (or pillow): - bolster, head, pillow. Compare H4772.

Actual Wording in English:

And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was a healer in the bed, with a plaiting of goats' hair for his pillow.

The following Scripture is proof that these "idols" were people who could have "spoken vanity":

Zec 10:2 For the idols [read: teraphim] have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.

Jdg 17:5 And the man Micah had a house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

Jdg 18:14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.

Jdg 18:17 And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.

Jdg 18:20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.

Hos 3:4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:

Gen 31:19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images [read: teraphim] that were her father's.

Gen 31:34 Now Rachel had taken the images [read: teraphim], and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.

2Ki 23:24 Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images [read: teraphim], and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

Eze 21:21 For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images [read: teraphim], he looked in the liver

1Sa 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry [read: teraphim]. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

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