Something that is not alive, but made dead, from the grave.
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Graven Sentence Examples
Saints and angels are highly revered, if not adored, but graven images are forbidden.
But he is not an idolater, for he has not "made unto himself any graven image, nor the likeness of anything that is in heaven above or in the water beneath or in the water under the earth."
But the prevalence of the worship of " other gods " and of graven images in these " high places," and the moral debasement of life which accompanied these cults, made it clear that the " high places " were sources of grave injury to Israel's social life.
Such edicts are still found graven deep upon pillars, in caves and on rocks, from the Yusafzai valley beyond Peshawar on the north-western frontier, through the heart of Hindustan, to Kathiawar and Mysore on the south and Orissa in the east.
Above the inscription the picture of the king himself is graven, with a bow in his hand, putting his left foot on the body of Gaumata.