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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 - And I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars and cast your dead bodies upon the dead bodies of your idols, and my soul will abhor you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17 - And you have seen their detestable things, their idols of wood and stone, of silver and gold, which were among them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:12 - He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:26 - He acted very abominably in going after idols, as the Amorites had done, whom the LORD cast out before the people 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.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:11

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

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21 - He walked in all the way in which his father walked and served the idols that his father served and worshiped them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:2 - “Declare among the nations and proclaim,
set up a banner and proclaim,
conceal it not, and say:
‘Babylon is taken,
Bel is put to shame,
Merodach is dismayed.
Her images are put to shame,
her idols are dismayed.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:5 - And I will lay the dead bodies of the people of Israel before their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - Wherever you dwell, the cities shall be waste and the high places ruined, so that your altars will be waste and ruined,[fn] your idols broken and destroyed, your incense altars cut down, and your works wiped 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 where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - And you shall know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma 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, engraved on the wall all around, was every form of creeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:3 - “Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them?

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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 one of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart and sets the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him as he comes with the multitude of his idols,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:5 - that I may lay hold of the hearts of the house of Israel, who are all estranged from me through 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 away your faces from all your abominations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7 - For any one of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel, who separates himself from me, taking his idols into his heart and putting the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and yet comes to a prophet to consult me through him, 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 lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:6 - if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman in her time of menstrual 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 the pledge, lifts up his eyes to the idols, commits abomination,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:15 - he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:7 - And I said to them, ‘Cast away the detestable things your eyes feast on, every one of you, 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. None of them cast away the detestable things their eyes feasted on, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. “Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:16 - because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:18 - “And I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, 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 obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were set on their fathers’ idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:31 - When you present your gifts and offer up your children in fire,[fn] you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, declares 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 serve every one of you his idols, now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me; but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and 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 may come, and that makes idols to defile herself!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:4 - You have become guilty by the blood that you have shed, and defiled by the idols that you have made, and you have brought your days near, the appointed time of[fn] your years has come. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all the countries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:30 - have brought this upon you, because you played the whore with the nations and 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. With their idols they have committed adultery, and they have even offered up[fn] to them for food the children whom they had borne to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:39 - For when they had slaughtered their children in sacrifice to their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. And behold, this is what they did in my house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:49

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:49 - And they shall return your lewdness upon you, and you shall bear the penalty for your sinful idolatry, and you shall know 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 destroy the idols
and put an end to the images in Memphis;
there shall no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt;
so 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 flesh with the blood and lift up your eyes to your idols and shed blood; shall you then possess the land?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:18 - So I poured out my wrath upon them for the blood that they had shed in the land, for the idols with which they had defiled it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:25 - I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:23 - They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. But I will save them from all the backslidings[fn] in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall 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 from me, going astray from me after their idols when Israel went astray, shall bear their punishment.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:12 - Because they ministered to them before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I have sworn concerning them, declares the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their punishment.
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