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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 Box Gen 31:19

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - Now Rachel had taken the household gods and put them in the camel’s saddle and sat on them. Laban felt all about the tent, but did not find them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - And she said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the way of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the household gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:4

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 in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:4 - Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any 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 - And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:2

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:8 - “‘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 under the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17 - And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21 - They have made me jealous with what is no god;
they have provoked me to anger with their idols.
So I will make them jealous with those who are no people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:9 - So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to the house of their idols and to the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7 - Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8 - And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - because they have[fn] forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12 - and they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, “You shall not do this.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - “Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations and has done things more evil than all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and has made Judah also to sin with his idols,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21 - He walked in all the way in which his father walked and served the idols that his father served and worshiped them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 10:9

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:26

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 11:15

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:5 - He also took out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the incense altars. And the kingdom had rest under him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 - Even Maacah, his mother, King Asa removed from being queen mother because she had made a detestable image for Asherah. Asa cut down her image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 17:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3 - The LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 23:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17 - Then all the people went to the house of Baal and tore it down; his altars and his images they broke in pieces, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:18 - And they abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols. And wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2 - but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel. He even made metal images for the Baals,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:22 - And he did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, as Manasseh his father had done. Amon sacrificed to all the images that Manasseh his father had made, and served them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - he broke down the altars and beat the Asherim and the images into powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah this Passover was kept.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 97:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:7 - All worshipers of images are put to shame,
who make their boast in worthless idols;
worship him, all you gods!

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 115:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:4 - Their idols are silver and gold,
the work of human hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 135:15

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:29 - For they[fn] shall be ashamed of the oaks
that you desired;
and you shall blush for the gardens
that you have chosen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:11 - shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols
as I have done to Samaria and her images?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - Therefore by this the guilt of Jacob will be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:[fn]
when he makes all the stones of the altars
like chalkstones crushed to pieces,
no Asherim or incense altars will remain standing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22 - Then you will defile your carved idols overlaid with silver and your gold-plated metal images. You will scatter them as unclean things. You will say to them, “Be gone!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19 - and have cast their gods into the fire. For they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:28 - But when I look, there is no one;
among these there is no counselor
who, when I ask, gives an answer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:5 - I declared them to you from of old,
before they came to pass I announced them to you,
lest you should say, ‘My idol did them,
my carved image and my metal image commanded them.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 - you who burn with lust among the oaks,[fn]
under every green tree,
who slaughter your children in the valleys,
under the clefts of the rocks?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14 - but have stubbornly followed their own hearts and have gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:22 - Are there any among the false gods of the nations that can bring rain?
Or can the heavens give showers?
Are you not he, O LORD our God?
We set our hope on you,
for you do all these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - O LORD, my strength and my stronghold,
my refuge in the day of trouble,
to you shall the nations come
from the ends of the earth and say:
“Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies,
worthless things in which there is no profit.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4 - Your altars shall become desolate, and your incense altars shall be broken, and I will cast down your slain before your idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - Wherever you dwell, the cities shall be waste and the high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined,[fn] your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - And you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I went in and saw. And there, engraved on the wall all around, was every form of creeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16 - You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.[fn]

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