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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 BoxGen 31:19 - Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel had stolen the household idols that were her father’s.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - Now Rachel had taken the household idols, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. And Laban searched 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 it not displease my lord that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is with me.” And he searched but did not find the household idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:4 - “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—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, nor make for yourselves molded gods: I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols;
and My soul shall abhor you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:2 - They 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, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded 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—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 Deu 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17 - and you saw their abominations and their idols which were among them—wood and stone and silver and gold);

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21 - They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God;
They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols.
But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation;
I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:9 - And they cut off his head and stripped off his armor, and sent word throughout the land of the Philistines, to proclaim it in the temple of their idols and among 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, on the hill that is east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8 - And he did likewise for all his foreign wives, who burned incense 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 the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the people of Ammon, and have not walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and keep My statutes and My judgments, as did his father David.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:12

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:11

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:21

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Moreover Josiah put away those who consulted mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might perform the words of the law which 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 word throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temple of their idols and among 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 idols,
But the LORD made the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15 - Then he appointed for himself priests for the high places, for the demons, and the calf idols which he had made.

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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 quiet under him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 - Also he removed Maachah, the mother of Asa the king, from being queen mother, because she had made an obscene image of Asherah;[fn] and Asa cut down her obscene image, then crushed and burned it by the Brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 17:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3 - Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the former 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 - And all the people went to the temple[fn] of Baal, and tore it down. They broke in pieces its altars and images, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:18 - Therefore they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served wooden images and idols; and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem because of their trespass.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2 - For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made molded images for the Baals.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:22

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - When he had broken down the altars and the wooden images, had beaten the carved images into powder, and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel, 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 - Let all be put to shame who serve carved images,
Who boast of 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 men’s 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 men’s hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:29 - For they[fn] shall be ashamed of the terebinth trees
Which you have desired;
And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens
Which you have chosen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:11 - As I have done to Samaria and her idols,
Shall I not do also to Jerusalem and her idols?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be covered;
And this is all the fruit of taking away his sin:
When he makes all the stones of the altar
Like chalkstones that are beaten to dust,
Wooden images[fn] and incense altars shall not stand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22 - You will also defile the covering of your images of silver,
And the ornament of your molded images of gold.
You will throw them away as an unclean thing;
You will say to them, “Get away!”

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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 not gods, but the work of men’s hands—wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:28 - For I looked, and there was no man;
I looked among them, but there was no counselor,
Who, when I asked of them, could answer a word.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:5 - Even from the beginning I have declared it to you;
Before it came to pass I proclaimed it to you,
Lest you should say, ‘My idol has done them,
And my carved image and my molded image
Have commanded them.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 - Inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree,
Slaying the 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 they have walked according to the dictates of their own hearts and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them,”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:22 - Are there any among the idols of the nations that can cause rain?
Or can the heavens give showers?
Are You not He, O LORD our God?
Therefore we will wait for You,
Since You have made all these.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - O LORD, my strength and my fortress,
My refuge in the day of affliction,
The Gentiles shall come to You
From the ends of the earth and say,
“Surely our fathers have inherited lies,
Worthlessness and unprofitable things.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - “In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate, so that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, your idols may be broken and made to cease, your incense altars may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - ‘Then you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense 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—every sort of creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed all around on the walls.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16 - “You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored high places for yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be.

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