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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 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 65 times in 62 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 31:19–Eze 18:12)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them inside her camel’s saddle and was sitting on them. Laban searched through everything in the tent but found nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - Rachel said to her father, “Don’t be angry, my lord, that I cannot stand up in your presence; I’m having my period.” So he searched but could not find the household gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:4 - “You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:4 - “ ‘Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:2 - who invited them to the sacrifices to their gods. The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:8

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17 - You saw among them their detestable images and idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21 - They made me jealous by what is no god and angered me with their worthless idols. I will make them envious by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation that has no understanding.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:9 - They cut off his head and stripped off his armor, and they sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temple of their idols and among their people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7 - On a hill east of Jerusalem, Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable god of Moab, and for Molek the detestable god of the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8 - He did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and offered sacrifices to their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - I will do this because they have[fn] forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Molek the god of the Ammonites, and have not walked in obedience to me, nor done what is right in my eyes, nor kept my decrees and laws as David, Solomon’s father, did.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12 - They worshiped idols, though the LORD had said, “You shall not do this.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - “Manasseh king of Judah has committed these detestable sins. He has done more evil than the Amorites who preceded him and has led Judah into sin with his idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21 - He followed completely the ways of his father, worshiping the idols his father had worshiped, and bowing down to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Furthermore, Josiah got rid of the mediums and spiritists, the household gods, the idols and all the other detestable things seen in Judah and Jerusalem. This he did to fulfill the requirements of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the temple of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:9 - They stripped him and took his head and his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news among their idols and their people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:26

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15 - when he appointed his own priests for the high places and for the goat and calf idols he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:5 - He removed the high places and incense altars in every town in Judah, and the kingdom was at peace under him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 - King Asa also deposed his grandmother Maakah from her position as queen mother, because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa cut it down, broke it up and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3 - The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the ways of his father David before him. He did not consult the Baals

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:18 - They abandoned the temple of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, and worshiped Asherah poles and idols. Because of their guilt, God’s anger came on Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2 - He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and also made idols for worshiping the Baals.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:22

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

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - he tore down the altars and the Asherah poles and crushed the idols to powder and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout Israel. Then he went back to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:7 - All who worship images are put to shame, those who boast in idols— worship him, all you gods!

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:4 - But their idols are silver and gold, made by human hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:15 - The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by human hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:29 - “You will be ashamed because of the sacred oaks in which you have delighted; you will be disgraced because of the gardens that you have chosen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:11 - shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned for, and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin: When he makes all the altar stones to be like limestone crushed to pieces, no Asherah poles[fn] or incense altars will be left standing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22 - Then you will desecrate your idols overlaid with silver and your images covered with gold; you will throw them away like a menstrual cloth and say to them, “Away with you!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19 - They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:28 - I look but there is no one— no one among the gods to give counsel, no one to give answer when I ask them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:5 - Therefore I told you these things long ago; before they happened I announced them to you so that you could not say, ‘My images brought them about; my wooden image and metal god ordained them.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 - You burn with lust among the oaks and under every spreading tree; you sacrifice your children in the ravines and under the overhanging crags.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14 - Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts; they have followed the Baals, as their ancestors taught them.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:22 - Do any of the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies themselves send down showers? No, it is you, LORD our God. Therefore our hope is in you, for you are the one who does all this.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the earth and say, “Our ancestors possessed nothing but false gods, worthless idols that did them no good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4 - Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will slay your people in front of your idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - Wherever you live, the towns will be laid waste and the high places demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and devastated, your idols smashed and ruined, your incense altars broken down, and what you have made wiped out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I went in and looked, and I saw portrayed all over the walls all kinds of crawling things and unclean animals and all the idols of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16 - You took some of your garments to make gaudy high places, where you carried on your prostitution. You went to him, and he possessed your beauty.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:12 - He oppresses the poor and needy. He commits robbery. He does not return what he took in pledge. He looks to the idols. He does detestable things.

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