IMAGE, statue — Biblical Aramaic, the same root as the Hebrew word for the divine image in Genesis 1:26-27, though here it names a physical object, not a theological status. ⚠ Occurs 17 times across Daniel 2-3: five times of the composite statue in Nebuchadnezzar's dream (2:31-35), whose head alone was gold and whose kingdom Daniel said would be succeeded; eleven times of the golden image Nebuchadnezzar builds one chapter later, entirely gold, which reads as an unstated answer to that interpretation; and once more, at 3:19, of Nebuchadnezzar's OWN FACE, 'the tzelem of his face was changed' with rage — the identical word for the statue and for the king's furious expression. → first discussed at Dan 3:1