Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NET

NET

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

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

Lexicon :: Strong's H1544 - gillûl

Choose a new font size and typeface
גִּלּוּל
Transliteration
gillûl
Pronunciation
ghil-lool'
Listen
Part of Speech
masculine plural noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

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

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17 - You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 15:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:12 - He removed the male cultic prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the disgusting idols his ancestors had made.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 21:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:26 - He was so wicked he worshiped the disgusting idols, just like the Amorites whom the LORD had driven out from before the Israelites.)

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12 - They worshiped the disgusting idols in blatant disregard of the LORD's command.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - "King Manasseh of Judah has committed horrible sins. He has sinned more than the Amorites before him and has encouraged Judah to sin by worshiping his disgusting idols.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21 - He followed in the footsteps of his father and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols which his father had worshiped.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Josiah also got rid of the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the LORD's temple.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 50:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:2 - "Announce the news among the nations! Proclaim it! Signal for people to pay attention! Declare the news! Do not hide it! Say: 'Babylon will be captured. Bel will be put to shame. Marduk will be dismayed. Babylon's idols will be put to shame. Her disgusting images will be dismayed.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4 - Your altars will be ruined and your incense altars will be broken. I will throw down your slain in front of your idols.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:5 - I will place the corpses of the people of Israel in front of their idols, and I will scatter your bones around your altars.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined, your idols will be shattered and demolished, your incense altars will be broken down, and your works wiped out.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:9 - Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize how I was crushed by their unfaithful heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - Then you will know that I am the LORD - when their dead lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and all the mountaintops, under every green tree and every leafy oak, the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I went in and looked. I noticed every figure of creeping thing and beast - detestable images - and every idol of the house of Israel, engraved on the wall all around.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:3 - "Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek me?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:4 - Therefore speak to them and say to them, 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: When any one from the house of Israel erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet, I the LORD am determined to answer him personally according to the enormity of his idolatry.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:5 - I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.'

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:6 - "Therefore say to the house of Israel, 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: Return! Turn from your idols, and turn your faces away from your abominations.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7 - For when anyone from the house of Israel, or the foreigner who lives in Israel, separates himself from me and erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet to seek something from me, I the LORD am determined to answer him personally.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36 - This is what the sovereign LORD says: Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness was uncovered in your prostitution with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children you have given to them,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:6 - does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains or pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife, does not have sexual relations with a woman during her period,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:12 - oppresses the poor and the needy, commits robbery, does not give back what was given in pledge, prays to idols, performs abominable acts,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:15 - He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:7 - I said to them, "Each of you must get rid of the detestable idols you keep before you, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the LORD your God."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:8 - But they rebelled against me, and refused to listen to me; no one got rid of their detestable idols, nor did they abandon the idols of Egypt. Then I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:16 - I did this because they rejected my regulations, did not follow my statutes, and desecrated my Sabbaths; for their hearts followed their idols.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:18 - "'But I said to their children in the wilderness, "Do not follow the practices of your fathers; do not observe their regulations, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:24 - I did this because they did not observe my regulations, they rejected my statutes, they desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers' idols.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:31 - When you present your sacrifices - when you make your sons pass through the fire - you defile yourselves with all your idols to this very day. Will I allow you to seek me, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the sovereign LORD, I will not allow you to seek me!

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:39 - "'As for you, O house of Israel, this is what the sovereign LORD says: Each of you go and serve your idols, if you will not listen to me. But my holy name will not be profaned again by your sacrifices and your idols.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:3 - Then say, 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: O city, who spills blood within herself (which brings on her doom), and who makes herself idols (which results in impurity),

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:4 - you are guilty because of the blood you shed and defiled by the idols you made. You have hastened the day of your doom; the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations, an object to be mocked by all lands.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - She bestowed her sexual favors on them; all of them were the choicest young men of Assyria. She defiled herself with all whom she desired - with all their idols.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:30 - I will do these things to you because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.

Tools

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 with their idols, and their sons, whom they bore to me, they have passed through the fire as food to their idols.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:39 - On the same day they slaughtered their sons for their idols, they came to my sanctuary to desecrate it. This is what they have done in the middle of my house.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:49

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:49 - They will repay you for your obscene conduct, and you will be punished for idol worship. Then you will know that I am the sovereign LORD."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:13 - "'This is what the sovereign LORD says: I will destroy the idols, and put an end to the gods of Memphis. There will no longer be a prince from the land of Egypt; so I will make the land of Egypt fearful.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 33:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:25 - Therefore say to them, 'This is what the sovereign LORD says: You eat the meat with the blood still in it, pray to your idols, and shed blood. Do you really think you will possess the land?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:18 - So I poured my anger on them because of the blood they shed on the land and because of the idols with which they defiled it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:25 - I will sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:23 - They will not defile themselves with their idols, their detestable things, and all their rebellious deeds. I will save them from all their unfaithfulness by which they sinned. I will purify them; they will become my people and I will become their God.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:10 - "'But the Levites who went far from me, straying off from me after their idols when Israel went astray, will be responsible for their sin.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:12 - Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow concerning them, declares the sovereign LORD, that they will be responsible for their sin.
BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NET
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NET
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