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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 66 times in 63 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 31:19–Eze 16:16)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - (Now Rachel had taken the idols and put them inside her camel's saddle and sat on them.) Laban searched the whole tent, but did not find them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - Rachel said to her father, "Don't be angry, my lord. I cannot stand up in your presence because I am having my period." So he searched thoroughly, but did not find the idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:4 - "You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is on the earth beneath or that is in the water below.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:4 - Do not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal. I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:2 - These women invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods; then the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images, all their molten images, and demolish their high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:8 - You must not make for yourself an image of anything in heaven above, on earth below, or in the waters beneath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17 - You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21 - They have made me jealous with false gods, enraging me with their worthless gods; so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, with a nation slow to learn I will enrage them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:9 - They cut off Saul's head and stripped him of his armor. They sent messengers to announce the news in the temple of their idols and among their people throughout the surrounding land of the Philistines.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7 - Furthermore, on the hill east of Jerusalem Solomon built a high place for the detestable Moabite god Chemosh and for the detestable Ammonite god Milcom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8 - He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - I am taking the kingdom from him because they have abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon's father David did.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12 - They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD's command.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - "King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins. He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21 - He followed in the footsteps of his father and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols which his father had worshiped.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Josiah also got rid of the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the LORD's temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 10:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:9 - They stripped his corpse, and then carried off his head and his armor. They sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines proclaiming the news to their idols and their people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:26 - For all the gods of the nations are worthless, but the LORD made the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15 - Jeroboam appointed his own priests to serve at the worship centers and to lead in the worship of the goat idols and calf idols he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:5 - He removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. The kingdom had rest under his rule.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 - King Asa also removed Maacah his grandmother from her position as queen mother because she had made a loathsome Asherah pole. Asa cut down her Asherah pole and crushed and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 17:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3 - The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he followed in his ancestor David's footsteps at the beginning of his reign. He did not seek the Baals,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 23:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17 - All the people went and demolished the temple of Baal. They smashed its altars and idols. They killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:18 - They abandoned the temple of the LORD God of their ancestors, and worshiped the Asherah poles and idols. Because of this sinful activity, God was angry with Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2 - He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel; he also made images of the Baals.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:22 - He did evil in the sight of the LORD, just like his father Manasseh had done. He offered sacrifices to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - he tore down the altars and Asherah poles, demolished the idols, and smashed all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - This Passover was observed in the eighteenth year of Josiah's reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 97:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:7 - All who worship idols are ashamed, those who boast about worthless idols. All the gods bow down before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 115:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:4 - Their idols are made of silver and gold - they are man-made.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 135:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:15 - The nations' idols are made of silver and gold, they are man-made.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:29 - Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees you find so desirable; you will be embarrassed because of the sacred orchards where you choose to worship.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:11 - As I have done to Samaria and its idols, so I will do to Jerusalem and its idols."

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - So in this way Jacob's sin will be forgiven, and this is how they will show they are finished sinning: They will make all the stones of the altars like crushed limestone, and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22 - You will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them, "Get out!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19 - They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:28 - I look, but there is no one, among them there is no one who serves as an adviser, that I might ask questions and receive answers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:5 - I announced them to you beforehand; before they happened, I predicted them for you, so you could never say, 'My image did these things, my idol, my cast image, decreed them.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 - you who practice ritual sex under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14 - Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to the gods called Baal, as their fathers taught them to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:22 - Do any of the worthless idols of the nations cause rain to fall? Do the skies themselves send showers? Is it not you, O Lord our God, who does this? So we put our hopes in you because you alone do all this."

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - Then I said, "LORD, you give me strength and protect me. You are the one I can run to for safety when I am in trouble. Nations from all over the earth will come to you and say, 'Our ancestors had nothing but false gods - worthless idols that could not help them at all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4 - Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined, your idols will be shattered and demolished, your incense altars will be broken down, and your works wiped out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - Then you will know that I am the LORD - when their dead lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and all the mountaintops, under every green tree and every leafy oak, the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I went in and looked. I noticed every figure of creeping thing and beast - detestable images - and every idol of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16 - You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his.

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