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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)
Dictionary Aids

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 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 66 times in 63 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 31:19–Eze 16:16)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - Now Laban had gone to shear his flock. Then Rachel stole the [fn]household idols that were her father’s.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - Now Rachel had taken the [fn]household idols and put them in the camel’s saddle, and she sat on them. And Laban felt through all the tent but did not find them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - And she said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the [fn]household idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:4 -

“You shall not make for yourself [fn]an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:4 - ‘Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods; I am Yahweh your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - ‘I then will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and give your corpses to lie on the corpses of your idols, for My soul shall loathe you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:2 - Indeed they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - then you shall dispossess all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their carved stones and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:8 -

‘You shall not make for yourself [fn]an idol—any likeness of what is in heaven above [fn]or on the earth beneath [fn]or in the water under the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17 - moreover, you have seen their detestable things and their idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold, which they had with them—
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21 -

‘They have made Me jealous with what is not God;

They have provoked Me to anger with their [fn]idols.

So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people;

I will provoke them to anger with a wickedly foolish nation,

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:9 - Then they cut off his head and stripped off his weapons and sent them all around the land of the Philistines, to proclaim the good news to the house of their idols and to the people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7 - Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain which is [fn]east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestable idol of the sons of Ammon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8 - Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - because they have forsaken Me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My sight and to keep My statutes and My judgments, as his father David did.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12 - And they served idols, concerning which Yahweh had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - “Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations—he has done evil more than all the Amorites did who were before him—and has also made Judah sin with his idols,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21 - And he walked in all the way that his father had walked and served the idols that his father had served and worshiped them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 -

Moreover, the mediums and the spiritists and the teraphim and the idols and all the detestable things that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah purged in order that he might [fn]establish the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:9 - So they stripped him and took his head and his weapons and sent them all around the land of the Philistines, to proclaim the good news to their idols and to the people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:26 -

For all the gods of the peoples are [fn]idols,

But Yahweh made the heavens.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15 - And he set up priests of his own for the high places, for the goat demons and for the calves which he had made
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:5 - He also [fn]removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. And the kingdom was quiet before him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 -

He also removed Maacah, the mother of King Asa, from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image [fn]as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image, crushed it and burned it at the brook Kidron.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3 - And Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the ways of his father David’s earlier days and did not seek the Baals,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17 - And all the people came to the house of Baal and tore it down, and his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:18 - And they forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the [fn]Asherim and the idols; so wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guilt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2 - But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; he also made molten images for the Baals.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:22 - And he did what was evil in the sight of Yahweh, as Manasseh his father had done, and Amon sacrificed to all the graven images which his father Manasseh had made, and he served them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - he also tore down the altars and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and cut in pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was celebrated.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:7 -

Let all those be ashamed who serve graven images,

Who boast of idols;

[fn]Worship Him, all you [fn]gods!

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:4 -

Their idols are silver and gold,

The work of man’s hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:15 -

The idols of the nations are silver and gold,

The work of man’s hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:29 -

For [fn]you will be ashamed of the [fn]oaks which you have desired,

And you will be humiliated because of the gardens which you have chosen.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:11 -

Shall I not [fn]do to Jerusalem and her images

Just as I have done to Samaria and her idols?”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 -

Therefore through this, Jacob’s iniquity will be atoned for;

And this will be the whole fruit of the turning away of his sin:

When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones,

When [fn]Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22 - And you will defile your graven images overlaid with your silver, and your molten images plated with your gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing and say to [fn]them, “Be gone!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19 - and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:28 -

“But I look, and there is no one,

And there is no counselor [fn]among them

Who, if I ask, can respond with a word.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:5 -

Therefore I declared them to you long ago,

Before [fn]they happened I caused them to be heard by you,

Lest you say, ‘My idol has done them,

And my graven image and my molten image have commanded them.’

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 -

Who inflame yourselves among the [fn]oaks,

Under every green tree,

Who slaughter the children in the [fn]ravines,

Under the clefts of the cliffs?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14 - but have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them,”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:22 -

Are there any among the [fn]idols of the nations who give rain?

Or can the heavens give showers?

Is it not You, O Yahweh our God?

Therefore we [fn]hope in You,

For You are the one who has done all these things.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 -

O Yahweh, my strength and my strong defense,

And my refuge in the day of distress,

To You the nations will come

From the ends of the earth and say,

“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,

Futility and [fn]things of no profit.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4 - “So your altars will become desolate, and your incense altars will be broken; and I will make your slain fall in front of your idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - “In all your places of habitation, cities will become waste, and the high places will be desolate, that your altars may become waste and [fn]desolate, your idols may be broken and cease, your incense altars may be cut in pieces, and your works may be blotted out.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - “Then you will know that I am Yahweh when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak—the places where they [fn]offered a soothing aroma to all their idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I entered and looked, and behold, every form of creeping things and beasts and detestable things, with all the idols of the house of Israel, were carved on the wall all around.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16 - “You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors, and played the harlot on them, [fn]which should never come about nor happen.

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