What is the image Rachel steals from her father (Gen:31.19)? Clue: It is not a pendant or good luck charm.?

Question

Thirteen years of research, and one published novel later (Graven Image by RF Hawthorne) it is evidently clear that, through a translated, Hebrew manuscript called the "Book of Jasher" Rachel steals this image device in order to hide from her father (laban) where she and her husband (Jacob) and family were going (to Canaan or modern day Israel, from Assyria or modern day Iraq). Interestingly, these same images, which are the same graven images that are forbidden in the TEN COMMANDMENTS, appear to be linked to far-reaching, embryo stem cell research, forming an extraordinary connection, linking 4,000-years of earth history with modern day prophecies concerning Israel and end of times events -- all seemingly coming to a head, even as the war in Israel rages forward. Clearly, there is more to this breaking news-like story, yet...very few have any understanding or knowledge of how significant this issue is. Are we on a direct path of recreating graven images, as defined in 'Jasher'???

Answer 1

....and the big bad wolf said he would huff...and he would puff....and he would blow your house down

Answer 2

Teraphim

givers of prosperity, idols in human shape, large or small, analogous to the
images of ancestors which were revered by the Romans. In order to deceive the
guards sent by Saul to seize David, Michal his wife prepared one of the
household teraphim, putting on it the goat's-hair cap worn by sleepers and
invalids, and laid it in a bed, covering it with a mantle. She pointed it out
to the soldiers, and alleged that David was confined to his bed by a sudden
illness (1 Sam. 19:13-16). Thus she gained time for David's escape. It seems
strange to read of teraphim, images of ancestors, preserved for superstitious
purposes, being in the house of David. Probably they had been stealthily
brought by Michal from her father's house. "Perhaps," says Bishop Wordsworth,
"Saul, forsaken by God and possessed by the evil spirit, had resorted to
teraphim (as he afterwards resorted to witchcraft); and God overruled evil for
good, and made his very teraphim (by the hand of his own daughter) to be an
instrument for David's escape.", Deane's David, p. 32. Josiah attempted to
suppress this form of idolatry (2 Kings 23:24). The ephod and teraphim are
mentioned together in Hos. 3:4. It has been supposed by some (Cheyne's Hosea)
that the "ephod" here mentioned, and also in Judg. 8:24-27, was not the part of
the sacerdotal dress so called (Ex. 28:6-14), but an image of Jehovah overlaid
with gold or silver (comp. Judg. 17, 18; 1 Sam. 21:9; 23:6, 9; 30:7, 8), and is
thus associated with the teraphim.

Answer 3

The image, itself, is not described. Its size may be inferred by the fact that when Laben, Rachel's father, comes looking for this item, it is hidden under whatever it was that Rachel was sitting on. From what I've seen, those household gods never were very large.

Answer 4

i rephrase, phleghm. again, science does not believe in god.