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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

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.

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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 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 1Ki 15:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:12 - And he banished the perverted persons[fn] from 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 - And he behaved very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.

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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 Jer 50:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:2 - “Declare among the nations,
Proclaim, and set up a standard;
Proclaim—do not conceal it—
Say, ‘Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed.
Merodach[fn] is broken in pieces;
Her idols are humiliated,
Her images are broken in pieces.’

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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 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:5 - “And I will lay the corpses of the children of Israel before their 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 - “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 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:9 - “Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations.

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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 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:3 - “Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their hearts, and put before them that which causes them to stumble into iniquity. Should I let Myself be inquired of at all 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: “Everyone of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him who comes, according to the multitude of his idols,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:5 - “that I may seize the house of Israel by their heart, because they are all estranged from Me by 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, turn away from your idols, and turn your faces away from all your abominations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7 - “For anyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell in Israel, who separates himself from Me and sets up his idols in his heart and puts before him what causes him to stumble into iniquity, then comes to a prophet to inquire of him concerning Me, I the LORD will answer him by Myself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 16:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36 - ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “Because your filthiness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:6 - If he has not eaten on the mountains,
Nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel,
Nor defiled his neighbor’s wife,
Nor approached a woman during her impurity;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:12 - If he has oppressed the poor and needy,
Robbed by violence,
Not restored the pledge,
Lifted his eyes to the idols,
Or committed abomination;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:15 - Who has not eaten on the mountains,
Nor lifted his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel,
Nor defiled his neighbor’s wife;

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:7 - “Then I said to them, ‘Each of you, throw away the abominations which are before 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 would not obey Me. They did not all cast away the abominations which were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said, ‘I will pour out My fury on them and fulfill 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 despised My judgments and did not walk in My statutes, but 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 - “But I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, 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 executed My judgments, but had despised My statutes, profaned My Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers’ idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 20:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:31 - “For when you offer your gifts and make your sons pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even to this day. So shall I be inquired of by you, 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, serve every one of you his idols—and hereafter—if you will not obey Me; but profane My holy name no more with your gifts and your idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:3 - “Then say, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “The city sheds blood in her own midst, that her time may come; and she makes idols within herself 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 which you have shed, and have defiled yourself with the idols which you have made. You have caused your days to draw near, and have come to the end of your years; therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations, and a mockery to all countries.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - Thus she committed her harlotry with them,
All of them choice men of Assyria;
And with all for whom she lusted,
With all their idols, she defiled herself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:30 - ‘I will do these things to you because you have gone as a harlot after the Gentiles, because you have become defiled by 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 with their idols, and even sacrificed their sons whom they bore to Me, passing them through the fire, to devour them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:39 - “For after they had slain their children for their idols, on the same day they came into My sanctuary to profane it; and indeed thus they have done in the midst of My house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 23:49

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:49 - ‘They shall repay you for your lewdness, and you shall pay for your idolatrous sins. Then 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 also destroy the idols,
And cause the images to cease from Noph;[fn]
There shall no longer be princes from the land of Egypt;
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 blood, you lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 36:18

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

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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 shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 37:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:23 - “They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. Then 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 - “And the Levites who went far from Me, when Israel went astray, who strayed away from Me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:12 - “Because they ministered to them before their idols and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity, therefore I have raised My hand in an oath against them,” says the Lord GOD, “that they shall bear their iniquity.
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