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Lexicon :: Strong's G1497 - eidōlon

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εἴδωλον
Transliteration
eidōlon (Key)
Pronunciation
i'-do-lon
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From εἶδος (G1491); an image (i.e. for worship)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:375,202

Strong’s Definitions

εἴδωλον eídōlon, i'-do-lon; from G1491; an image (i.e. for worship); by implication, a heathen god, or (plural) the worship of such:—idol.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x

The KJV translates Strong's G1497 in the following manner: idol (11x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 11x
The KJV translates Strong's G1497 in the following manner: idol (11x).

  1. an image, likeness

    1. i.e. whatever represents the form of an object, either real or imaginary

    2. used of the shades of the departed, apparitions, spectres, phantoms of the mind, etc.

  2. the image of an heathen god

  3. a false god

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
εἴδωλον eídōlon, i'-do-lon; from G1491; an image (i.e. for worship); by implication, a heathen god, or (plural) the worship of such:—idol.
STRONGS G1497:
εἴδωλον, -ου, τό, (εἶδος [cf. Winers Grammar, 96 (91); Etym. Magn. 296, 9]), in Greek writings from Homer down, an image, likeness, i. e. whatever represents the form of an object, either real or imaginary; used of the shades of the departed (in Homer), of apparitions, spectres, phantoms of the mind, etc.; in Biblical writings [an idol, i. e.]:
1. the image of a heathen god: Acts 7:41; 1 Corinthians 12:2; Revelation 9:20, (Isaiah 30:22; 2 Chronicles 23:17, etc.; θεῶν ἤ δαιμόνων εἴδωλα, Polybius 31, 3, 13);
2. a false god: Acts 15:20 (on which see ἀλίσγημα); Romans 2:22; 1 Corinthians 8:4, 7; 1 Corinthians 10:19; 2 Corinthians 6:16; 1 Thessalonians 1:9 (often in the Sept.); φυλάσσειν ἑαυτὸν ἀπὸ τ. εἰδώλων, to guard oneself from all manner of fellowship with heathen worship, 1 John 5:21.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

2 Chronicles
23:17
Isaiah
30:22
Acts
7:41; 15:20
Romans
2:22
1 Corinthians
8:4; 8:7; 10:19; 12:2
2 Corinthians
6:16
1 Thessalonians
1:9
1 John
5:21
Revelation
9:20

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1497 matches the Greek εἴδωλον (eidōlon),
which occurs 67 times in 64 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 31:19–Eze 8:10)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - Now Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them. And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - And she said to her father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the images.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:4 - Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:4 - Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:2 - And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:8 - Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17 - And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21 - They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:9 - And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7 - Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8 - And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12 - For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21 - And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 10:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:9 - And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:26 - For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15 - And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:5 - Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 - And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 17:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3 - And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 23:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17 - Then all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:18 - And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2 - For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:22 - But he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 97:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:7 - Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 115:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:4 - Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 135:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:15 - The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 1:6

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:6 - To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:29 - For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:11 - Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22 - Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19 - And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:28 - For I beheld, and there was no man; even among them, and there was no counsellor, that, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:5 - I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 - Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14 - But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:22 - Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait upon thee: for thou hast made all these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4 - And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

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