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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 - At the time they left, Laban was some distance away, shearing his sheep. Rachel stole her father’s household idols and took them with her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - But Rachel had taken the household idols and hidden them in her camel saddle, and now she was sitting on them. When Laban had thoroughly searched her tent without finding them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - she said to her father, “Please, sir, forgive me if I don’t get up for you. I’m having my monthly period.” So Laban continued his search, but he could not find the household idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:4 - “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:4 - “Do not put your trust in idols or make metal images of gods for yourselves. 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 pagan shrines and knock down your places of worship. I will leave your lifeless corpses piled on top of your lifeless idols,[fn] and I will despise you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 25:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:2 - These women invited them to attend sacrifices to their gods, so the Israelites feasted with them and worshiped the gods of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - you must drive out all the people living there. You must destroy all their carved and molten images and demolish all their pagan shrines.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:8 - “You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind, or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17 - You have seen their detestable practices and their idols[fn] made of wood, stone, silver, and gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21 - They have roused my jealousy by worshiping things that are not God;
they have provoked my anger with their useless idols.
Now I will rouse their jealousy through people who are not even a people;
I will provoke their anger through the foolish Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 31:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:9 - So they cut off Saul’s head and stripped off his armor. Then they proclaimed the good news of Saul’s death in their pagan temple and to the people throughout the land of Philistia.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7 - On the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem,[fn] he even built a pagan shrine for Chemosh, the detestable god of Moab, and another for Molech, the detestable god of the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8 - Solomon built such shrines for all his foreign wives to use for burning incense and sacrificing to their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - For Solomon has[fn] abandoned me and worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians; Chemosh, the god of Moab; and Molech, the god of the Ammonites. He has not followed my ways and done what is pleasing in my sight. He has not obeyed my decrees and regulations as David his father did.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12 - Yes, they worshiped idols,[fn] despite the LORD’s specific and repeated warnings.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - “King Manasseh of Judah has done many detestable things. He is even more wicked than the Amorites, who lived in this land before Israel. He has caused the people of Judah to sin with his idols.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21 - He followed the example of his father, worshiping the same idols his father had worshiped.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Josiah also got rid of the mediums and psychics, the household gods, the idols,[fn] and every other kind of detestable practice, both in Jerusalem and throughout the land of Judah. He did this in obedience to the laws written in the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had found in the LORD’s Temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 10:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:9 - So they stripped off Saul’s armor and cut off his head. Then they proclaimed the good news of Saul’s death before their idols and to the people throughout the land of Philistia.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 16:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:26 - The gods of other nations are mere idols,
but the LORD made the heavens!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15 - Jeroboam appointed his own priests to serve at the pagan shrines, where they worshiped the goat and calf idols he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 14:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:5 - Asa also removed the pagan shrines, as well as the incense altars from every one of Judah’s towns. So Asa’s kingdom enjoyed a period of peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 - King Asa even deposed his grandmother[fn] Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made an obscene Asherah pole. He cut down her obscene pole, broke it up, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 17:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3 - The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of his father’s early years[fn] and did not worship the images of Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 23:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17 - And all the people went over to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They demolished the altars and smashed the idols, and they killed Mattan the priest of Baal in front of the altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:18 - They decided to abandon the Temple of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, and they worshiped Asherah poles and idols instead! Because of this sin, divine anger fell on Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2 - Instead, he followed the example of the kings of Israel. He cast metal images for the worship of Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 33:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:22 - He did what was evil in the LORD’s sight, just as his father, Manasseh, had done. He worshiped and sacrificed to all the idols his father had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - He destroyed the pagan altars and the Asherah poles, and he crushed the idols into dust. He cut down all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Finally, he returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:19

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:19 - This Passover celebration took place in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 97:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:7 - Those who worship idols are disgraced—
all who brag about their worthless gods—
for every god must bow to him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 115:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:4 - Their idols are merely things of silver and gold,
shaped by human hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 135:15

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:29 - You will be ashamed of your idol worship
in groves of sacred oaks.
You will blush because you worshiped
in gardens dedicated to idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:11 - So we will defeat Jerusalem and her gods,
just as we destroyed Samaria with hers.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - The LORD did this to purge Israel’s[fn] wickedness,
to take away all her sin.
As a result, all the pagan altars will be crushed to dust.
No Asherah pole or pagan shrine will be left standing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22 - Then you will destroy all your silver idols
and your precious gold images.
You will throw them out like filthy rags,
saying to them, “Good riddance!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19 - And they have thrown the gods of these nations into the fire and burned them. But of course the Assyrians could destroy them! They were not gods at all—only idols of wood and stone shaped by human hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:28 - Not one of your idols told you this.
Not one gave any answer when I asked.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 48:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:5 - That is why I told you what would happen;
I told you beforehand what I was going to do.
Then you could never say, ‘My idols did it.
My wooden image and metal god commanded it to happen!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 57:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 - You worship your idols with great passion
beneath the oaks and under every green tree.
You sacrifice your children down in the valleys,
among the jagged rocks in the cliffs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14 - Instead, they have stubbornly followed their own desires and worshiped the images of Baal, as their ancestors taught them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:22 - Can any of the worthless foreign gods send us rain?
Does it fall from the sky by itself?
No, you are the one, O LORD our God!
Only you can do such things.
So we will wait for you to help us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - LORD, you are my strength and fortress,
my refuge in the day of trouble!
Nations from around the world
will come to you and say,
“Our ancestors left us a foolish heritage,
for they worshiped worthless idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4 - All your altars will be demolished, and your places of worship will be destroyed. I will kill your people in front of your idols.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - Wherever you live there will be desolation, and I will destroy your pagan shrines. Your altars will be demolished, your idols will be smashed, your places of worship will be torn down, and all the religious objects you have made will be destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - They will know that I am the LORD when their dead lie scattered among their idols and altars on every hill and mountain and under every green tree and every great shade tree—the places where they offered sacrifices to their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I went in and saw the walls engraved with all kinds of crawling animals and detestable creatures. I also saw the various idols[fn] worshiped by the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16 - You used the lovely things I gave you to make shrines for idols, where you played the prostitute. Unbelievable! How could such a thing ever happen?

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