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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 - And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father's images.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - And Rachel took the idols, and cast them among the camels' packs, and sat upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - And she said to her father, Be not indignant, Sir; I cannot rise up before thee, for it is with me according to the manner of women. Laban searched in all the house, and found not the images.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:4 - Thou shalt not make to thyself an idol, nor likeness of anything, whatever things are in the heaven above, and whatever are in the earth beneath, and whatever are in the waters under the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:4 - Ye shall not follow idols, and ye shall not make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - And I will render your pillars desolate, and will utterly destroy your wooden images made with hands; and I will lay your carcases on the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall loathe you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:2 - And they called them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshipped their idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - And ye shall destroy all that dwell in the land before your face, and ye shall abolish their high places, and all their molten images ye shall destroy, and ye shall demolish all their pillars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:8 - Thou shalt not make to thyself an image, nor likeness of any thing, whatever things are in the heaven above, and whatever are in the earth beneath, and whatever are in the waters under the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17 - (LXX 29:16) And ye beheld their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which are among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21 - [fn] They have provoked me to jealousy with that which is not God, they have exasperated me with their idols; and I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are no nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:9 - And they [fn]turned him, and stripped off his armour, and sent it into the land of the Philistines, sending round glad tidings to their idols and to the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7 - (LXX 11:5) Then Solomon built a high place to Chamos the idol of Moab, and to their king the [fn]idol of the children of Ammon,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8 - (LXX 11:7) And thus he acted towards all his strange wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed to their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - Because he forsook me, and sacrificed to Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians, and to Chamos, and to the idols of Moab, and to [fn]their king the [fn]abomination of the children of Ammon, and he walked not in my ways, to do that which was right before me, as David his father did.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12 - And they served the idols, of which the Lord said to them, Ye shall not do this thing against the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - Forasmuch as Manasses the king of Juda has wrought all these evil abominations, beyond all that the Amorite did, who lived before him, and has led Juda also into sin by their idols,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21 - And he walked in all the way in which his father walked, and served the idols which his father served, and worshipped them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Moreover Josias removed the sorcerers, and the wizards, and the theraphin, and the idols, and all the abominations that had been set up in the land of Juda and in Jerusalem, that he might [fn]keep the words of the law that were written in the book, which Chelcias the priest found in the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:9 - And they stripped him, and took his head, and his armour, and sent them into the land of the Philistines round about, to proclaim the glad tidings to their idols, and to the 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 our God made the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15 - And he made for himself priests of the high places, and for the idols, and for the vanities, and for the calves which Jeroboam made.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:5 - (LXX 14:4) And he removed from all the cities of Juda the altars and the idols, and established in quietness

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 - And he removed Maacha his mother from being priestess to Astarte; and he cut down the idol, and burnt it in the brook of Kedron.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3 - And the Lord was with Josaphat, for he walked in the first ways of his father, and did not seek to idols;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17 - And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and tore down it and its altars, and they ground his images to powder, and they slew Matthan the priest of Baal before his altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:18 - And they forsook the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and served the Astartes and idols: and there was wrath upon Juda and Jerusalem in that day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2 - But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, for he made graven images.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:22 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasses did: and Amon sacrificed to all the idols which his father Manasses had made, and served them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - And he pulled down the altars and the groves, and he cut the idols in small pieces, and cut off all the high places from all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:7 - (LXX 96:7) Let all that worship graven images be ashamed, who boast of their idols; [fn] worship him, all ye his angels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:4 - (LXX 113:12) The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:15 - (LXX 134:15) The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the works of men's hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:29 - For they shall be ashamed of their idols, which they delighted in, and they are made ashamed of the gardens which they coveted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:11 - For as I did to Samaria and her idols, so will I do also to Jerusalem and her idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I shall have taken away his sin; when they shall have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22 - And thou shalt pollute the plated idols, and thou shalt grind to powder the gilt ones, and shalt scatter them as the water of a removed woman, and thou shalt thrust them forth as dung.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19 - and have cast their idols into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have cast them away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:28 - For from among the nations, behold, there was no one; and of their idols there was none to declare anything: and if I should ask them, Whence are ye? they could not answer me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:5 - And I told thee [fn]of old what should be before it came upon thee; I made it known to thee, lest thou shouldest say, My idols have done it for me; and shouldest say, My graven and molten images have commanded me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 - who call upon idols under the leafy trees, slaying [fn]your children in the valleys among the rocks?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14 - (LXX 9:13) but went after the lusts of their evil heart, and after the idols which their fathers taught them to worship:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:22 - Is there any one among the idols of the Gentiles that can give rain? and will the sky yield his fulness at their bidding? Art not thou he? we will even wait on thee, O Lord: for thou hast made all these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - O Lord, thou art my strength, and mine help, and my refuge in days of evil: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the end of the earth, and shall say, How vain were the idols which our fathers procured to themselves, and there is no help in them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4 - And your altars shall be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - and in all your habitations: the cities shall be made desolate, and the high places utterly laid waste; that your altars may be destroyed, and your idols be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats be abolished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - Then ye shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain are in the midst of your idols round about your altars, on every high hill, and under every shady tree, where they offered a sweet savour 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 beheld vain abominations, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon them round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16 - And thou didst take of thy garments, and madest to thyself idols of needlework, and didst go a-whoring after them; therefore thou shalt never come in, nor shall the like take place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:12 - and has oppressed the poor and needy, and has committed robbery, and not restored a pledge, and has set his eyes upon idols, has wrought iniquities,

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