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Lexicon :: Strong's H1544 - gillûl

Aa
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 BoxLev 26:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:30 - And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:17 - And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:12 - Those used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods he sent out of the country, and he took away all the images which his fathers had made.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 21:26 - He did a very disgusting thing in going after false gods, doing all the things the Amorites did, whom the Lord sent out before the children of Israel.)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:12 - And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:11 - Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these disgusting things, doing more evil than all the Amorites before him, and making Judah do evil with his false gods,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:21 - He went in all the ways of his father, being a servant and worshipper of the false gods to which his father had been a servant;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:24 - And all those who had control of spirits, and the wonder-workers, and the images, and the false gods, and all the disgusting things which were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah put away, so that he might give effect to the words of the agreement recorded in the book which Hilkiah the priest made discovery of in the house of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 50:2 - Give it out among the nations, make it public, and let the flag be lifted up; give the word and keep nothing back; say, Babylon is taken, Bel is put to shame, Merodach is broken, her images are put to shame, her gods are broken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:4 - And your altars will be made waste, and your sun-images will be broken: and I will have your dead men placed before your images.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:5 - And I will put the dead bodies of the children of Israel in front of their images, sending your bones in all directions about your altars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:6 - In all your living-places the towns will become broken walls, and the high places made waste; so that your altars may be broken down and made waste, and your images broken and ended, and so that your sun-images may be cut down and your works rubbed out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:9 - And those of you who are kept safe will have me in mind among the nations where they have been taken away as prisoners, how I sent punishment on their hearts which were untrue to me, and on their eyes which were turned to their false gods: and they will be full of hate for themselves because of the evil things which they have done in all their disgusting ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:13 - And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when their dead men are stretched among their images round about their altars on every high hill, on all the tops of the mountains, and under every branching tree, and under every thick oak-tree, the places where they made sweet smells to all their images.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I went in and saw; and there every sort of living thing which goes flat on the earth, and unclean beasts, and all the images of the children of Israel, were pictured round about on the wall.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:3 - Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:4 - For this cause say to them, These are the words of the Lord: Every man of Israel who has taken his false god into his heart, and put before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, and comes to the prophet; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself in agreement with the number of his false gods;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:5 - So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:6 - For this cause say to the children of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: Come back and give up your false gods and let your faces be turned from your disgusting things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:7 - When any one of the men of Israel, or of those from other lands who are living in Israel, who has become strange to me, and takes his false gods into his heart, and puts before his face the sin which is the cause of his fall, comes to the prophet to get directions from me; I the Lord will give him an answer by myself:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 16:36 - This is what the Lord has said: Because your unclean behaviour was let loose and your body uncovered in your loose ways with your lovers and with your disgusting images, and for the blood of your children which you gave to them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:6 - And has not taken flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel; if he has not had connection with his neighbour's wife, or come near to a woman at the time when she is unclean;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:12 - Has done wrong to the poor and to him who is in need, and taken property by force, and has not given back to one in his debt what is his, and has given worship to images and has done disgusting things,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 18:15 - Who has not taken the flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel, and has not had connection with his neighbour's wife,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:7 - And I said to them, Let every man among you put away the disgusting things to which his eyes are turned, and do not make yourselves unclean with the images of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:8 - But they would not be controlled by me, and did not give ear to me; they did not put away the disgusting things to which their eyes were turned, or give up the images of Egypt: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:16 - Because they were turned away from my orders, and were not guided by my rules, and had no respect for my Sabbaths: for their hearts went after their images.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:18 - And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:24 - Because they had not done my orders, but had been turned away from my rules, and had not given respect to my Sabbaths, and their eyes were turned to the images of their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:31 - And when you give your offerings, causing your sons to go through the fire, you make yourselves unclean with all your images to this day; and will you come to me for directions, O children of Israel? By my life, says the Lord, you will get no direction from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:39 - As for you, O children of Israel, the Lord has said: Let every man completely put away his images and give ear to me: and let my holy name no longer be shamed by your offerings and your images.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:3 - And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A town causing blood to be drained out in her streets so that her time may come, and making images in her to make her unclean!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 22:4 - You are responsible for the blood drained out by you, and you are unclean through the images which you have made; and you have made your day come near, and the time of your judging has come; for this cause I have made you a name of shame to the nations and a cause of laughing to all countries.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:7 - And she gave her unclean love to them, all of them the noblest men of Assyria: and she made herself unclean with the images of all who were desired by her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:30 - They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations, and have become unclean with their images.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:37

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:37 - For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:39

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:39 - For when she had made an offering of her children to her images, she came into my holy place to make it unclean; see, this is what she has done inside my house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:49

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 23:49 - And I will send on you the punishment of your evil ways, and you will be rewarded for your sins with your images: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 30:13 - This is what the Lord has said: In addition to this, I will give up the images to destruction and put an end to the false gods in Noph; never again will there be a ruler in the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 33:25 - For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:18 - So I let loose my wrath on them because of those whom they had violently put to death in the land, and because they had made it unclean with their images:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 36:25 - And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 37:23 - And they will no longer make themselves unclean with their images or with their hated things or with any of their sins: but I will give them salvation from all their turning away in which they have done evil, and will make them clean; and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:10 - But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 44:12 - Because they did this work for them before their images, and became a cause of sin to the children of Israel; for this cause my hand has been lifted up against them, says the Lord, and their punishment will be on them.
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