Strong's Lexicon
G1497 — εἴδωλον
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G1497 |
|---|---|
| Word: | εἴδωλον |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Etymology: | from G1491 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 11 |
| Transliteration: | eidolon |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | ei'-do-lon |
| Meaning: | 1. an image, idol (i.e. for worship) 2. (by implication) a heathen god 3. (plural) the worship of such |
| KJV Renderings: | idol |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
εἴδωλον, εἰδώλου, 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: Act 7:41; 1Co 12:2; Rev 9:20 (Isa 30:22; 2Ch 23:17, etc.; θεῶν ἤ δαιμον´ων εἴδωλα, Polybius 31, 3, 13);
2. a false god: Act 15:20 (on which see ἀλίσγημα); Rom 2:22; 1Co 8:4; 1Co 8:7; 1Co 10:19; 2Co 6:16; 1Th 1:9 (often in the Sept.); φυλάσσειν ἑαυτόν ἀπό τῶν εἰδώλων, to guard oneself from all manner of fellowship with heathen worship, 1Jn 5:21.
Englishman's Greek Concordance
εἴδωλον (idol)
Acts 7:41
- KJV: And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifice unto the idol and rejoiced in the works of their own hands
- GK: και εμοσχοποίησαν εν ταις ημέραις εκείναις και ανήγαγον θυσίαν τω ειδώλω και ευφραίνοντο εν τοις έργοις των χειρών αυτών
Acts 15:20
- KJV: But that we write unto them that they abstain from pollutions of idols and fornication and things strangled and blood
- GK: αλλά επιστείλαι αυτοίς του απέχεσθαι από των αλισγημάτων των ειδώλων και της πορνείας και του πνικτού και του αίματος
Romans 2:22
- KJV: Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery dost thou commit adultery thou that abhorrest idols dost thou commit sacrilege
- GK: ο λέγων μη μοιχεύειν μοιχεύεις ο βδελυσσόμενος τα είδωλα ιεροσυλείς
1 Corinthians 8:4
- KJV: As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols we know that an idol nothing in the world and that none other God but one
- GK: περί της βρώσεως ούν των ειδωλοθύτων οίδαμεν ότι ουδέν είδωλον εν κόσμω και ότι ουδείς θεός έτερος ει εις
1 Corinthians 8:7
- KJV: Howbeit not in every man that knowledge for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat as a thing offered unto an idol and their conscience being weak is defiled
- GK: αλλ΄ ουκ εν πάσιν η γνώσις τινές δε τη συνειδήσει του ειδώλου έως άρτι ως ειδωλόθυτον εσθίουσι και η συνείδησις αυτών ασθενής ούσα μολύνεται
1 Corinthians 10:19
- KJV: What say I then that the idol is any thing or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing
- GK: τι ούν φημι ότι είδωλόν τι εστιν η ότι ειδωλόθυτόν τι εστιν
1 Corinthians 12:2
- KJV: Ye know that ye were Gentiles carried away unto these dumb idols even as ye were led
- GK: οίδατε ότι ότε έθνη ήτε προς τα είδωλα τα άφωνα ως αν ήγεσθε απαγόμενοι
2 Corinthians 6:16
- KJV: And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols for ye are the temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in and I will be their God and they shall be my people
- GK: τις δε συγκατάθεσις ναώ θεού μετά ειδώλων υμείς γαρ ναός θεού εστε ζώντος καθώς είπεν ο θεός ότι ενοικήσω εν αυτοίς και εμπεριπατήσω και έσομαι αυτών θεός και αυτοί έσονταί μοι λαός
1 Thessalonians 1:9
- KJV: For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God
- GK: αυτοί γαρ περί ημών απαγγέλλουσιν οποίαν είσοδον έσχομεν προς υμάς και πως επεστρέψατε προς τον θεόν από των ειδώλων δουλεύειν θεώ ζώντι και αληθινώ
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