Strong H457אֱלִיל

idol

Transliteration
'ĕlîyl
Pronunciation
el-eel'
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

Definition

Apparently from H408; good for {nothing} by analogy vain or vanity; specifically an idol: - {idol} no {value} thing of nought.

Detailed definition

STEP sense: idol

Exact lexical definition: insufficiency

Part of speech: noun

BDB context: אֱלִיל n.m . insufficiency , worthlessness the shepherd of worthlessness = the worthless shepherd concr. worthless gods , idols

In the Bible

Strong H457 appears in 18 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • idol14
  • idols1
  • image1
  • nought1
  • value1

First verses

  1. Leviticus 19:4
    Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
  2. Leviticus 26:1
    Ye 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.
  3. 1 Chronicles 16:26
    For all the gods of the people are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.
  4. Job 13:4
    But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
  5. Psalms 96:5
    For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.
  6. Psalms 97:7
    Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
  7. Isaiah 2:8
    Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
  8. Isaiah 2:18
    And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
  9. Isaiah 2:20
    In 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;
  10. Isaiah 10:10
    As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
  11. Isaiah 10:11
    Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
  12. Isaiah 19:1
    The burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
  13. Isaiah 19:3
    And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
  14. Isaiah 31:7
    For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
  15. Jeremiah 14:14
    Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
  16. Ezekiel 30:13
    Thus saith the Lord God; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
  17. Habakkuk 2:18
    What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
  18. Zechariah 11:17
    Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.
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