Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H457
אֱלִיל
e.lil · “idol”
Used 20 times across 9 books
Definition
1) of nought, good for nothing, worthless
1a) of physicians, a shepherd, a divination
1b) of false gods
1a) of physicians, a shepherd, a divination
1b) of false gods
Where it appears
Leviticus2
1 Chronicles1
Job1
Psalms2
Isaiah10
Jeremiah1
Ezekiel1
Habakkuk1
Zechariah1
In the text
Leviticus 19:4Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.Leviticus 26:1Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.1 Chronicles 16:26For all the gods of the people are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.Job 13:4But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.Psalms 96:5For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.Psalms 97:7Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.Isaiah 2:8Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:Isaiah 2:18And the idols he shall utterly abolish.Isaiah 2:20In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;Isaiah 10:10As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
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