An image - “Teraphim” was an image, or a bust in human form and as large as life, of a kind of household god to whose worship the Israelites…

An image. —An image in Hebrew is teraphim—a plural form, but used as a singular. We have no instance of the singular. The…

And Michal took an image
Or "teraphim", as the word is; which, if the same with those that Rachel stole from her father, they …

Michal's stratagem to gain time until David got to a distance was allowable, but her falsehood did not even have the plea of necessity to excuse it…