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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 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)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - Laban had gone to shear his flock, and Rachel stole the [fn]household idols that were her father’s.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - Now Rachel had taken the [fn]household idols and put them in the camel’s saddlebag, and she sat on them. So Laban searched through all the tent, but did not find them.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - And she said to her father, “May my lord not be angry that I cannot stand in your presence, because the [fn]way of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the [fn]household idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:4 -

“You shall not make for yourself [fn]an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:4 - ‘Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves cast metal gods; I am the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - ‘I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and [fn]pile your [fn]remains on the [fn]remains of your idols, for My soul will loathe you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:2 - For they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from you, and destroy all their idolatrous sculptures, destroy all their cast metal images, and eliminate all their high places;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:8 -

‘You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any [fn]likeness of what is in heaven above [fn]or on the earth beneath [fn]or in the water under the earth.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17 - moreover, you have seen their abominations and their idols made of wood and stone, silver and gold, which they had with them);
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21 -

‘They have made Me jealous with what is not God;

They have provoked Me to anger with their [fn]idols.

So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people;

I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:9 - They cut off his head and stripped off his weapons, and sent them [fn]throughout the land of the Philistines, to bring the good news to the house of their idols and to the people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7 - Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh, the abhorrent idol of Moab, on the mountain that is [fn]east of Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abhorrent idol of the sons of Ammon.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8 - He also did the same for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - because they have abandoned Me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the sons of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways, doing what is right in My sight and keeping My statutes and My ordinances, as his father David did.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12 - They served idols, concerning which the LORD had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - “Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed these abominations, having done more evil than all that the Amorites did who were before him, and has also misled Judah into sin with his idols,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21 - For he walked [fn]entirely in the way that his father had walked, and served the idols that his father had served, and worshiped them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 -

Moreover, Josiah removed the mediums, the spiritists, the [fn]household idols, the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he might [fn]fulfill the words of the Law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:9 - So they stripped him and took his head and his armor and sent messengers around the land of the Philistines to carry the good news to their idols and to the people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:26 -

For all the gods of the peoples are [fn]idols,

But the LORD made the heavens.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15 - He set up priests of his own for the high places, for the satyrs and the calves which he had made.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:5 - He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. And the kingdom was undisturbed under him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 -

He also removed Maacah, the mother of King Asa, from the position of queen mother, because she had made an abominable image [fn]as an Asherah, and Asa cut down her abominable image, crushed it, and burned it at the brook Kidron.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3 - And the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he [fn]followed the example of his father David’s earlier days and did not seek the Baals,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17 - And all the people went to the house of Baal and tore it down, and they broke in pieces his altars and his images, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:18 - And they abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the [fn]Asherim and the idols; so wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2 - But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; he also made cast metal images for the Baals.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:22 - He did evil in the sight of the LORD, just as his father Manasseh had done, and Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which his father Manasseh had made, and he served them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - he also tore down the altars and crushed the [fn]Asherim and the carved images into powder, and chopped down all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - In the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign this Passover was celebrated.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:7 -

May all those be ashamed who serve carved images,

Who boast in idols;

[fn]Worship Him, all you [fn]gods.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:4 -

Their idols are silver and gold,

The work of human hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:15 -

The idols of the nations are nothing but silver and gold,

The work of human hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:29 -

[fn]You certainly will be ashamed of the [fn]oaks which you have desired,

And you will be embarrassed by the gardens which you have chosen.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:11 -

Shall I not do the same to Jerusalem and her images

Just as I have done to Samaria and her idols?”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 -

Therefore through this Jacob’s wrongdoing will be forgiven;

And this will be [fn]the full price of the [fn]pardoning of his sin:

When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones;

When [fn]Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22 - And you will desecrate your carved images plated with silver, and your cast metal images plated with gold. You will scatter them as a filthy thing, and say to [fn]them, “Be gone!”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19 - and have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but only the work of human hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:28 -

“But when I look, there is no one,

And there is no counselor [fn]among them

Who, if I ask, can give an answer.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:5 -

Therefore I declared them to you long ago,

Before [fn]they took place I proclaimed them to you,

So that you would not say, ‘My idol has done them,

And my carved image and my cast metal image have commanded them.’

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 -

Who inflame yourselves among the oaks,

Under every luxuriant tree,

Who slaughter the children in the [fn]ravines,

Under the clefts of the rocks?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14 - but have followed the stubbornness of their heart and the Baals, [fn]as their fathers taught them,”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:22 -

Are there any among the [fn]idols of the nations who give rain?

Or can the heavens grant showers?

Is it not You, LORD our God?

Therefore we wait for You,

For You are the one who has done all these things.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 -

LORD, my strength and my stronghold,

And my refuge in the day of distress,

To You the nations will come

From the ends of the earth and say,

“Our fathers have inherited nothing but falsehood,

Futility, and [fn]things of no benefit.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4 - “So your altars will become deserted and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will make your slain fall in front of your idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - [fn]Everywhere you live, cities will be in ruins and the high places will be deserted, so that your altars will be in ruins and [fn]deserted, your idols will be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars will be cut down, and your works wiped out.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - “Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their dead are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every leafy tree and under every massive oak with thick branches—the places where they offered a soothing aroma to all their idols.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I entered and looked, and behold, every form of crawling things and animals and detestable things, with all the idols of the house of Israel, were carved on the wall all around.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16 - “You took some of your clothes, made for yourself [fn]high places of various colors, and committed prostitution on them, which should not come about nor happen.

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