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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)
Dictionary Aids

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 65 times in 62 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 31:19–Eze 18:12)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:19 - Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:34 - Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:35 - And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the teraphim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 20:4 - Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:4 - Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am Jehovah your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:2 - for they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:8 - Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17 - and ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:21 -
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God;
They have provoked me to anger with their vanities:
And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 31:9 - And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the tidings unto the house of their idols, and to the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:7 - Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, in the mount that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:8 - And so did he for all his foreign wives, who burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:33 - because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon; and they have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and mine ordinances, as did David his father.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12 - and they served idols, whereof Jehovah had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, that were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21 - And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - Moreover them that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 10:9 - And they stripped him, and took his head, and his armor, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry the tidings unto their idols, and to the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 16:26 -
For all the gods of the peoples are idols:
But Jehovah made the heavens.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:15 - and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the he-goats, and for the calves which he had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 14:5 - Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 15:16 - And also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah and Asa cut down her image, and made dust of it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:3 - And Jehovah was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto the Baalim,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 23:17 - And all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:18 - And they forsook the house of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2 - but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for the Baalim.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:22

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 33:22 - And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did Manasseh his father; and Amon sacrificed unto all the graven images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - And he brake down the altars, and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and hewed down all the sun-images throughout all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:7 -
Let all them be put to shame that serve graven images,
That boast themselves of idols:
Worship him, all ye gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 115:4 -
Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of men’s hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 135:15 -
The idols of the nations are silver and gold,
The work of men’s hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:29 - For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:11 - shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:9 - Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22 - And ye shall defile the overlaying of thy graven images of silver, and the plating of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as an unclean thing; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:19 - and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:28 - And when I look, there is no man: even among them there is no counsellor, that, when I ask of them, can answer a word.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 48:5 - therefore I have declared it to thee from of old; before it came to pass I showed it thee; lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 57:5 - ye that inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:14 - but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:22 - Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O Jehovah our God? therefore we will wait for thee; for thou hast made all these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:19 - O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, even vanity and things wherein there is no profit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4 - And your altars shall become desolate, and your sun-images shall be broken; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 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; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your sun-images may be hewn down, and your works may be abolished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the places where they offered sweet savor to all their idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I went in and saw; and behold, every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:16 - And thou didst take of thy garments, and madest for thee high places decked with divers colors, and playedst the harlot upon them: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:12 - hath wronged the poor and needy, hath taken by robbery, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols, hath committed abomination,

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