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Lexicon :: Strong's G1494 - eidōlothytos

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εἰδωλόθυτος
Transliteration
eidōlothytos (Key)
Pronunciation
i-do-loth'-oo-ton
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Neuter of a compound of εἴδωλον (G1497) and a presumed derivative of θύω (G2380)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:378,202

Strong’s Definitions

†εἰδωλόθυτον eidōlóthyton, i-do-loth'-oo-ton; neuter of a compound of G1497 and a presumed derivative of G2380; an image-sacrifice, i.e. part of an idolatrous offering:—(meat, thing that is) offered (in sacrifice, sacrificed) to (unto) idols.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's G1494 in the following manner: things offered unto idols (4x), things offered in sacrifice to idols (3x), things sacrificed unto idols (2x), meats offered to idols (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's G1494 in the following manner: things offered unto idols (4x), things offered in sacrifice to idols (3x), things sacrificed unto idols (2x), meats offered to idols (1x).

  1. sacrificed to idols, the flesh left over from the heathen sacrifices

    1. it was either eaten at the feasts or sold (by the poor and the miserly) in the market

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†εἰδωλόθυτον eidōlóthyton, i-do-loth'-oo-ton; neuter of a compound of G1497 and a presumed derivative of G2380; an image-sacrifice, i.e. part of an idolatrous offering:—(meat, thing that is) offered (in sacrifice, sacrificed) to (unto) idols.
STRONGS G1494:
εἰδωλόθυτος, -ον, (εἴδωλον and θύω), a Biblical and ecclesiastical word [Winers Grammar, 26; 100 (94)], sacrificed to idols; τὸ εἰδωλόθυτον and τὰ εἰδωλόθυτα denote the flesh left over from the heathen sacrifices; it was either eaten at feasts, or sold (by the poor and the miserly) in the market: Acts 15:29; Acts 21:25; 1 Corinthians 8:1, 4, 7, 10; 1 Corinthians 10:19, 28 (here L text T Tr WH read ἱερόθυτον, which see); Revelation 2:14, 20. [Cf. Lightfoot on Galatians, p. 308f.]

Related entry:
ἱερόθυτος, -ον, (from ἱερός and θύω, cf. εἰδωλόθυτος), sacrificed, offered in sacrifice, to the gods; as in Plutarch symp. 8, 8, 3 initially used of the flesh of animals offered in sacrifice: 1 Co. 10:28 L text T Tr WH. On the use of the word in Greek writings cf. Lob. ad Phyrn. p. 159.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Acts
15:29; 21:25
1 Corinthians
8:1; 8:4; 8:7; 8:10; 10:19; 10:28; 10:28
Revelation
2:14; 2:20

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1494 matches the Greek εἰδωλόθυτος (eidōlothytos),
which occurs 10 times in 10 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:29 - that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality.[fn] If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well.
Farewell.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:25 - “But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written and decided that they should observe no such thing, except[fn] that they should keep themselves from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:1 - Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:4 - Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:7 - However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:10 - For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat those things offered to idols?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 10:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:19 - What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 10:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:28 - But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” do not eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for conscience’ sake;[fn] for “the earth is the LORD’s, and all its fullness.”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:14 - “But I have a few things against you, because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:20 - “Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow[fn] that woman[fn] Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce[fn] My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.
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