Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NASB95

NASB95

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's G1497 - eidōlon

Choose a new font size and typeface
εἴδωλον
Transliteration
eidōlon (Key)
Pronunciation
i'-do-lon
Listen
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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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)

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - When Laban had gone to shear his flock, then Rachel stole the [fn]household idols that were her father’s.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - Now Rachel had taken the [fn]household idols and put them in the camel’s saddle, and she sat on them. And Laban felt through all the tent but did not find them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:35

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:4

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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:4 - ‘Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods; I am the LORD your God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - ‘I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your [fn]remains on the [fn]remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:2

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.

Tools

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 molten images and demolish all their high places;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:8 - ‘You shall not make for yourself [fn]an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above [fn]or on the earth beneath [fn]or in the water under the earth.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:17

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:21

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,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:9

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 carry the good news to the house of their idols and to the people.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7 - Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the detestable idol of Moab, on the mountain which is [fn]east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the detestable idol of the sons of Ammon.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8 - Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - because they have forsaken 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 observing My statutes and My ordinances, as his father David did.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:12

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:11

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21 - For he walked in all the way that his father had walked, and served the idols that his father had served and worshiped them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Moreover, Josiah [fn]removed the mediums and the spiritists and the teraphim and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might [fn]confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 10:9

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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:26 - For all the gods of the peoples are [fn]idols,
But the LORD made the heavens.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15 - He set up priests of his own for the high places, for the satyrs and for the calves which he had made.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:5

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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 - He also removed Maacah, the mother of King Asa, from the position of queen mother, because she had made a horrid image [fn]as an Asherah, and Asa cut down her horrid image, crushed it and burned it at the brook Kidron.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 17:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3 - The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he [fn]followed the example of his father David’s earlier days and did not seek the Baals,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 23:17

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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:18 - 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 their guilt.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2 - But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; he also made molten images for the Baals.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:22

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:7

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:19

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 97:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:7 - Let all those be ashamed who serve graven images,
Who boast themselves of idols;
[fn]Worship Him, all you [fn]gods.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 115:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:4 - Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Psa 135:15

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:29 - Surely [fn]you will be ashamed of the [fn]oaks which you have desired,
And you will be embarrassed at the gardens which you have chosen.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:11 - Shall I not [fn]do to Jerusalem and her images
Just as I have done to Samaria and her idols?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - Therefore through this Jacob’s iniquity 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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22 - And you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molten images plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to [fn]them, “Be gone!”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19 - and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:28

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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:5

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 graven image and my molten image have commanded them.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 - Who inflame yourselves among the [fn]oaks,
Under every luxuriant tree,
Who slaughter the children in the [fn]ravines,
Under the clefts of the crags?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14 - but have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them,”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:22

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, O LORD our God?
Therefore we [fn]hope in You,
For You are the one who has done all these things.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - O 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 profit.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4 - “So your altars will become desolate and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will make your slain fall in front of your idols.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - “In all your dwellings, cities will become waste and the high places will be desolate, that your altars may become waste and [fn]desolate, your idols may be broken and brought to an end, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - “Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, under every green tree and under every leafy oak—the places where they offered soothing aroma to all their idols.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I entered and looked, and behold, every form of creeping things and beasts and detestable things, with all the idols of the house of Israel, were carved on the wall all around.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16 - “You took some of your clothes, made for yourself high places of various colors and played the harlot on them, [fn]which should never come about nor happen.

Search Results Continued...

1. Currently on page 1/2 (Gen 31:19–Eze 16:16) Gen 31:19–Eze 16:16

2. LOAD PAGE 2 Eze 18:12–Zec 13:2

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NASB95
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NASB95
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Translations available: King James Version, New King James Version, New Living Translation, New International Version, English Standard Version, Christian Standard Bible, New American Standard Bible 2020, New American Standard Bible 1995, Legacy Standard Bible 2021, New English Translation, Revised Standard Version, American Standard Version, Young's Literal Translation, Darby Translation, Webster's Bible, Hebrew Names Version, Reina-Valera 1960, Latin Vulgate, Westminster Leningrad Codex, Septuagint, Morphological Greek New Testament, and Textus Receptus.