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Lexicon :: Strong's H1544 - gillûl

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גִּלּוּל
Transliteration
gillûl
Pronunciation
ghil-lool'
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Part of Speech
masculine plural noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 353h

Variant Spellings

Variant spellings for this word: גלול (Strongs) גלל (Strongs) גלולים (Gesenius)

Strong’s Definitions

גִּלּוּל gillûwl, ghil-lool'; or (shortened) גִּלֻּל gillul; from H1556; properly, a log (as round); by implication, an idol:—idol.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 48x

The KJV translates Strong's H1544 in the following manner: idol (47x), image (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 48x
The KJV translates Strong's H1544 in the following manner: idol (47x), image (1x).

  1. idols

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גִּלּוּל gillûwl, ghil-lool'; or (shortened) גִּלֻּל gillul; from H1556; properly, a log (as round); by implication, an idol:—idol.
STRONGS H1544: Abbreviations
† [גִּלּוּל] noun masculineJeremiah 50:27 only plural idols (= logs, blocks, shapeless things Ges BaudRel i. 95; Ew doll-images > dungy things Sm Ezekiel 6:4 SS after Rabb) **See BaudZMG, 1904, 395 ff. (compares Biblical Aramaic גְּלָל (אֶבֶן), Palmyrene גללא Tariff i. 9 = στήλη λιθινη; and concludes that it was originally a designation of the primitive stone menhir or מַצֵּבָה). — גִּלּוּלִים Ezekiel 22:8 + 3 times + Ezekiel 30:13 (strike out B Co); גִּלֻּלִים 1 Kings 15:12 + 2 times; construct גִּלּוּלֵי Ezekiel 8:10 + 6 times; גִּלּוּלַיִךְ Ezekiel 22:4; גִּלּוּלָיו 2 Kings 21:11 + 4 times; גִּלּוּלֶיהָ Jeremiah 50:2; יֵ֯כֶם Leviticus 26:30 + 7 times; יֵ֯כֶן Ezekiel 23:49; יֵ֯הֶם Ezekiel 6:9 + 14 times + Ezekiel 6:5 (del BA al Co); יֵ֯הֶן Ezekiel 23:37; — idols (39 times Ezekiel); — 1 Kings 15:12; 2 Kings 17:12; 2 Kings 21:21; Ezekiel 6:5 (del Co) Ezekiel 6:9; Ezekiel 6:13 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 14:4, 5; Ezekiel 18:6, 15; Ezekiel 20:16, 24, 39; Ezekiel 23:37, 39, 49; Ezekiel 33:25; Ezekiel 44:10, 12; || שִׁקּוּצִים Deuteronomy 29:16; 2 Kings 23:24 (|| also תְּרָפִים), Ezekiel 20:7, 18 (both with verb טמא) Ezekiel 20:8; Ezekiel 37:23, compare also Ezekiel 8:10 (שֶׁקֶץ, but שִׁקּוּצִים apparently Greek Version of the LXX Syriac Version Targum & so Co); || תּוֺעֵבָה Ezekiel 14:6; 2 Kings 21:11, compare Ezekiel 18:12; Ezekiel 16:36 (גִּלּוּלֵי תוֺעֲבוֺתַיִךְ), & 1 Kings 21:26 (where verb תָּעַב); || טֻמְאוֺת Ezekiel 36:25; || מִכְשׁוֺל עֲוֺנוֺ Ezekiel 14:3, 4, 7; || עֲצַבִּים Jeremiah 50:2; || אֱלִילִים Ezekiel 30:13 (Co אילים; compare also above); || חַמָּן Ezekiel 6:4, 6; Leviticus 26:30 (compare below); || תְּרָפִים 2 Kings 23:24 (above); in phrase טִמֵּא בְּגִלּ׳ etc. Ezekiel 20:7, 18, 31; Ezekiel 22:3, 4; Ezekiel 23:7, 30; Ezekiel 36:18 (del Co); תְּחַלְּלוּ בְגִלּ׳ Ezekiel 20:39; — note especially the expression עַל־פִּגְרֵי פִּגְרֵיכֶם וְנָתַתִּי גִלּוּלֵיכֶם Leviticus 26:30 and I will lay your carcases upon the carcases of your idols.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Leviticus

26:30; 26:30; 26:30

Deuteronomy

29:16

1 Kings

15:12; 15:12; 21:26

2 Kings

17:12; 21:11; 21:11; 21:21; 23:24; 23:24

Jeremiah

50:2; 50:2; 50:27

Ezekiel

6:4; 6:4; 6:5; 6:5; 6:6; 6:9; 6:9; 6:13; 8:10; 8:10; 14:3; 14:4; 14:4; 14:5; 14:6; 14:7; 16:36; 18:6; 18:12; 18:15; 20:7; 20:7; 20:8; 20:16; 20:18; 20:18; 20:24; 20:31; 20:39; 20:39; 22:3; 22:4; 22:4; 22:8; 23:7; 23:30; 23:37; 23:37; 23:39; 23:49; 23:49; 30:13; 30:13; 33:25; 36:18; 36:25; 37:23; 44:10; 44:12

H1544

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Strong's Number H1544 matches the Hebrew גִּלּוּל (gillûl),
which occurs 48 times in 45 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - ‘I will destroy your high places [devoted to idolatrous worship], and cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies upon the [crushed] bodies of your idols, and My soul will detest you [with deep and unutterable loathing].

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17 - and you have seen their detestable acts and their [repulsive] idols of wood and stone, [lifeless images] of silver and gold, which they had with them),

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:12 - He expelled the male cult prostitutes (sodomites) from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers [Solomon, Rehoboam, and Abijam] had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:26 - He acted very repulsively in following idols, in accordance with everything the Amorites had done, whom the LORD expelled [from the land] before the sons of Israel.

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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 thing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - “Because Manasseh king of Judah has committed these repulsive acts, having done more evil than all the Amorites did 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 - He walked in all the [evil] 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 removed the mediums and the soothsayers and the teraphim (household gods) and the idols and all the repulsive things that were seen in Judah and in Jerusalem, so that he might fulfill the words of the law written in the book which Hilkiah the priest found in the house (temple) of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:2 -

“Declare among the nations.

Lift up a signal [to spread the news]—publish and proclaim it,

Do not conceal it; say,

‘Babylon has been taken,

Bel [the patron god] has been shamed, [fn]Marduk (Bel) has been shattered.

Babylon’s images have been shamed, her [worthless] idols have been thrown down.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4 - and your altars will become deserted and your pillars for sun-worship will be smashed in pieces; and I will throw down your slain in front of your idols [that cannot bring them back to life].

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:5 - “I will also lay the dead bodies of the children of Israel in front of their [Canaanite] idols; and I will scatter your bones all around your altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - “Everywhere you live, the cities will become waste and the high places will become deserted, so that your altars may bear their guilt and become deserted, your idols may be broken and destroyed, your incense altars [for sun-worship] may be cut down, and your works may be blotted out.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:9 - “Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations to which they will be exiled, how I have been broken by their lewdness and their adulterous hearts which have turned away from Me, and by their eyes which lust after their idols; and they will loathe themselves for the evils which they have committed, for all their repulsive acts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - “Then you will know [without any doubt] 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 leafy tree and under every oak with thick branches, the places where they offered sweet incense and a soothing aroma to all their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I entered and looked, and saw every kind of creeping things and beasts and loathsome things, and all the idols of the house of Israel, carved all around on the wall.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:3 - “Son of man, these men have set up [and honored] their idols in their hearts and have put right before their faces the [vile] stumbling block of their wickedness and guilt; should I [permit Myself to] be consulted by them at all?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:4 - “Therefore speak to them and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Any man of the house of Israel who takes his idols [of rebellion] into his heart, and puts the [vile] stumbling block of his wickedness and guilt [images of silver and gold] before his face, and yet comes to the prophet [to ask of him], I the LORD will answer him, [but I will answer him] in accordance with the number of his idols,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:5 - in order that I may take hold of the heart (mind) of the house of Israel who are all estranged from Me because of their idols.”’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:6 -

“Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “Repent and turn away from your idols and turn your faces away from all your disgusting and vile acts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7 - “For anyone of the house of Israel or among the strangers who immigrate to Israel who separates himself from Me, taking his idols into his heart, and puts right before his face the [vile] stumbling block of his wickedness and guilt, and [then] comes to the prophet to ask of Me for himself, I the LORD will answer him Myself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36 - Thus says the Lord GOD, “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your obscene immoralities with your lovers (pagan allies), and with all your [repulsive] idols, and because of the blood of your sons that you gave to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:6 - and does not eat [at the pagan shrines] on the mountains or raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her [monthly] time of impurity—

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:12 - oppresses the poor and needy, commits robbery, does not restore [to the debtor] his pledge, but raises his eyes to the idols, and commits repulsive acts,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:15 - “He does not eat [food set before idols] at the mountain shrines or raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor’s wife,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:7 - “Then I said to them, ‘Let every man throw away the detestable things on which he feasts his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:8 - “But they rebelled against Me and were not willing to listen to Me; they did not throw away the detestable things on which they feasted their eyes, nor did they [fn]give up the idols of Egypt.

“Then I decided to pour out My wrath on them and finish My anger against them in the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:16 - because they rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them; they even profaned My Sabbaths, for their heart continually went after their [worthless] idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:18 -

“But I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers nor observe their ordinances nor defile yourselves with their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:24 - because they had not observed My ordinances, but had [dishonored and] rejected My statutes and had profaned My Sabbaths, and set their eyes on the [man-made] idols of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:31 - “When you offer your gifts, when you make your sons pass through the fire, you are defiling yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be asked by you [for an oracle], O house of Israel? As I live,” says the Lord GOD, “I will not be inquired of by you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:39 -

“As for you, O house of Israel,” thus says the Lord GOD, “Go, let everyone serve his idols; but later you shall most certainly listen to Me, and you shall no longer profane My holy name with your gifts and with your idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:3 - “You shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “A city that sheds blood in her midst, so that her time [of doom] will come, and makes idols to defile her, contrary to her interest!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:4 - “You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols which you have made. Thus you have caused your day [of judgment and punishment] to approach and have arrived at [the completion of] your years; therefore, I have made you an object of scorn to the [pagan] nations and a thing to be mocked by all countries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - “She bestowed [freely] her immoralities on them, the choicest men of Assyria, all of them; and with all whom she adored and lusted after, she defiled herself with their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:30 - ‘These things will be done to you because you have prostituted yourself with the [Gentile] nations, because you have defiled yourself with their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:37

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:37 - “For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery [against Me] with their idols and have even forced their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire as [an offering of] food to them (idols).

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:39 - “For when they had killed their children [as offerings] to their idols, then they came the same day to My sanctuary to profane it [by daring to offer a sacrifice there also]. And behold, this they did within My house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:49

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:49 - ‘Thus your lewdness will be repaid to you, and you will suffer the penalty for your [sinful] idolatry; and you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord GOD.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:13 -

‘Thus says the Lord GOD,

“I will also destroy the idols

And I will put an end to the images in Memphis;

There will no longer be a prince of the land of Egypt.

And I will put fear in the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:25 - “Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD, “You eat meat with the blood in it and raise your eyes to your idols and shed blood. Should you take possession of the land?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:18 - “So I poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they had shed on the land and because they had defiled it with their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:25 - “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your uncleanness and from all your idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:23 - “They will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will save them from all their transgressions in which they have sinned, and I will cleanse them. So they will be My people, and I will be their God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:10 - “But the Levites who went far away from Me when Israel went astray, who went astray from Me after their idols, they shall bear the punishment for their sin and guilt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:12 - “Because the priests ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of sin to the house of Israel, therefore I have lifted up My hand and have sworn [an oath] against them,” says the Lord GOD, “that they shall bear the punishment for their sin and guilt.
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