2001 Translation

EIDŌLA, eidōla

Sounds Like: ee-DOH-lah

Translations: idols, images, false gods

From the root: ΕἸΔΩΛΟΝ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to images or representations, particularly those used as objects of worship. In a religious context, it often denotes false gods or the physical representations of such deities, implying something vain or empty. It is typically used in a negative sense, contrasting with the true God.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Neuter

Strong’s number: G1497 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 4:8

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 1:8, 4:54, 4:55, 4:56, 4:84, 5:12, 5:15, 6:10, 6:13

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 9 — 5:99, 10:205

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Five — 12:23

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 41:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 55:2, 73:2

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 31:19, 31:34, 31:35
• Numbers — 33:52
• Deuteronomy — 29:17
• 2 Kings — 23:24
• 1 Chronicles — 16:26
• 2 Chronicles — 14:5, 17:3, 23:17, 34:7, 35:19
• Tobit — 14:6, 14:6
• 1 Maccabees — 1:47, 13:47
• Psalms — 113:12, 134:15
• Wisdom — 15:15
• Isaiah — 27:9, 30:22, 37:19, 48:5, 57:5
• Jeremiah — 16:19
• Letter of Jeremiah — 1:72
• Ezekiel — 6:6, 8:10, 16:16, 18:12
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 14:5
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 5:4, 5:23, 6:27
• Hosea — 8:4
• Micah — 1:7
• Habakkuk — 2:18

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Romans — 2:22
• 1 Corinthians — 12:2
• Revelation — 9:20

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕἸΔΩΛΟΝ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΕἸΔΩΛΑΗ — idols, an idol
• ΕἸΔΩΛΙΚΟΣ — idolatrous, pertaining to idols, of idols
• ΕἸΔΩΛΙΟΝ — idol shrine, idol temple, a temple of idols, an idol shrine
• ΕἸΔΩΛΙΩ — in an idol temple, in a place of idols, to an idol temple, to a place of idols
• ΕἸΔΩΛΟΙΣ — (to) idols, (to) images, (to) false gods
• ΕἸΔΩΛΟΝ — idol, an idol, image, an image, phantom, a phantom
• ΕἸΔΩΛΟΥ — (of) idol, (of) image, (of) phantom, (of) an idol, (of) an image, (of) a phantom
• ΕἸΔΩΛΩ — (to) an idol, (to) an image, (to) a phantom
• ΕἸΔΩΛΩΝ — of idols, of images, of false gods
• ΤΟΙΣΕἸΔΩΛΟΙΣ — to the idols, to the images

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