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Lexicon :: Strong's G1494 - eidōlothytos

Aa
εἰδωλόθυτος
Transliteration
eidōlothytos (Key)
Pronunciation
i-do-loth'-oo-ton
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Neuter of a compound of εἴδωλον (G1497) and a presumed derivative of θύω (G2380)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:378,202

Strong’s Definitions

†εἰδωλόθυτον eidōlóthyton, i-do-loth'-oo-ton; neuter of a compound of G1497 and a presumed derivative of G2380; an image-sacrifice, i.e. part of an idolatrous offering:—(meat, thing that is) offered (in sacrifice, sacrificed) to (unto) idols.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's G1494 in the following manner: things offered unto idols (4x), things offered in sacrifice to idols (3x), things sacrificed unto idols (2x), meats offered to idols (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's G1494 in the following manner: things offered unto idols (4x), things offered in sacrifice to idols (3x), things sacrificed unto idols (2x), meats offered to idols (1x).

  1. sacrificed to idols, the flesh left over from the heathen sacrifices

    1. it was either eaten at the feasts or sold (by the poor and the miserly) in the market

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
†εἰδωλόθυτον eidōlóthyton, i-do-loth'-oo-ton; neuter of a compound of G1497 and a presumed derivative of G2380; an image-sacrifice, i.e. part of an idolatrous offering:—(meat, thing that is) offered (in sacrifice, sacrificed) to (unto) idols.
STRONGS G1494:
εἰδωλόθυτος, -ον, (εἴδωλον and θύω), a Biblical and ecclesiastical word [Winers Grammar, 26; 100 (94)], sacrificed to idols; τὸ εἰδωλόθυτον and τὰ εἰδωλόθυτα denote the flesh left over from the heathen sacrifices; it was either eaten at feasts, or sold (by the poor and the miserly) in the market: Acts 15:29; Acts 21:25; 1 Corinthians 8:1, 4, 7, 10; 1 Corinthians 10:19, 28 (here L text T Tr WH read ἱερόθυτον, which see); Revelation 2:14, 20. [Cf. Lightfoot on Galatians, p. 308f.]

Related entry:
ἱερόθυτος, -ον, (from ἱερός and θύω, cf. εἰδωλόθυτος), sacrificed, offered in sacrifice, to the gods; as in Plutarch symp. 8, 8, 3 initially used of the flesh of animals offered in sacrifice: 1 Co. 10:28 L text T Tr WH. On the use of the word in Greek writings cf. Lob. ad Phyrn. p. 159.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Acts
15:29; 21:25
1 Corinthians
8:1; 8:4; 8:7; 8:10; 10:19; 10:28; 10:28
Revelation
2:14; 2:20

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1494 matches the Greek εἰδωλόθυτος (eidōlothytos),
which occurs 10 times in 10 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:29

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:29 - To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:25

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:25 - But as to the Gentiles who have the faith, we sent a letter, giving our decision that they were to keep themselves from offerings made to false gods, and from blood, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from the evil desires of the body.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:1 - Now about things offered to images: we all seem to ourselves to have knowledge. Knowledge gives pride, but love gives true strength.

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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 8:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 8:10 - For if a man sees you, who have knowledge, taking food as a guest in the house of an image, will it not give him, if he is feeble, the idea that he may take food offered to images?

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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 10:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 10:28 - But if anyone says to you, This food has been used as an offering, do not take it, on account of him who said it, and on account of his sense of right and wrong:

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:14 - But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:20 - But I have this against you, that you let the woman Jezebel say she is a prophet and give false teaching, making my servants go after the desires of the flesh and take food offered to false gods.
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