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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 - You must abstain from eating food offered to idols, from consuming blood or the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. If you do this, you will do well. Farewell.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:25 - “As for the Gentile believers, they should do what we already told them in a letter: They should abstain from eating food offered to idols, from consuming blood or the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:1 - Now regarding your question about food that has been offered to idols. Yes, we know that “we all have knowledge” about this issue. But while knowledge makes us feel important, it is love that strengthens the church.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:4 - So, what about eating meat that has been offered to idols? Well, we all know that an idol is not really a god and that there is only one God.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:7 - However, not all believers know this. Some are accustomed to thinking of idols as being real, so when they eat food that has been offered to idols, they think of it as the worship of real gods, and their weak consciences are violated.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 8:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:10 - For if others see you—with your “superior knowledge”—eating in the temple of an idol, won’t they be encouraged to violate their conscience by eating food that has been offered to an idol?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 10:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:19 - What am I trying to say? Am I saying that food offered to idols has some significance, or that idols are real gods?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 10:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:28 - (But suppose someone tells you, “This meat was offered to an idol.” Don’t eat it, out of consideration for the conscience of the one who told you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:14 - “But I have a few complaints against you. You tolerate some among you whose teaching is like that of Balaam, who showed Balak how to trip up the people of Israel. He taught them to sin by eating food offered to idols and by committing sexual sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:20 - “But I have this complaint against you. You are permitting that woman—that Jezebel who calls herself a prophet—to lead my servants astray. She teaches them to commit sexual sin and to eat food offered to idols.
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