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Lexicon :: Strong's G1497 - eidōlon

Aa
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 11 times in 11 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:41

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 7:41 - And they made the image of a young ox in those days, and made an offering to it, and had joy in the work of their hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:20 - But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 2:22 - You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:4 - So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:7 - Still, all men have not that knowledge: but some, being used till now to the image, are conscious that they are taking food which has been offered to the image; and because they are not strong in the faith, their minds are troubled.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:19

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:19 - Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:2 - You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Co 6:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Co 6:16 - And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Th 1:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 1:9 - For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Jo 5:21 - My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 9:20 - And the rest of the people, who were not put to death by these evils, were not turned from the works of their hands, but went on giving worship to evil spirits, and images of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which have no power of seeing or hearing or walking:
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