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Strong's G1497 εἴδωλον (eidolon)

Eidolon means “idol” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1497 — gazal (“rob”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1497
Language Greek
Linked Usages 93
Books 34

Strong's G1497 Quick Answer

Strong's G1497 εἴδωλον (eidolon) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. eidolon (ei'-do-lon) n. 1. an image, idol (i.e. for worship) 2. (by implication) a heathen god It has 93 linked Bible usages across 34 books. Visible English usage signals include idols and idol. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
eidolon (ei'-do-lon) n. 1. an image, idol (i.e. for worship) 2. (by implication) a heathen god
Usage
93 linked usages
Books
34 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
idols and idol

Meaning and Definition

eidolon (ei'-do-lon) n. 1. an image, idol (i.e. for worship) 2. (by implication) a heathen god 3. (plural) the worship of such [from G1491] KJV: idol Root(s): G1491

Original Word
εἴδωλον
Transliteration
eidolon
Derivation
Root: εἶδος R1: 1491
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1497. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

idol

Usage: εἴδωλον, -ου, τό (εἶδος), [in LXX for אֱלוֹהָּ, גְּלוּלִים, etc. ;] __1. in cl. __(a) a phantom, image, likeness; __(b) an image in the mind, an idea, fancy. __2. In LXX and NT, __(a) an image of a god, an idol (cf. Polyb., xxxi, 3, 13): Act.7:41, 1Co.12:2, Rev.9:20; __(b) the false god or idol worshipped in an image (ICC, on I Th, l.with): Act.15:20, Rom.2:22, 1Co.8:4, 7 10:19 2Co.6:18, 1Th.1:9, 1Jn.5:21.† (AS)

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How Strong's G1497 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render eidolon, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

idols Acts 15:20 idol Acts 7:41

How Strong's G1497 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 64 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1497 (εἴδωλον) appears 83 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1497 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G1497 in the New Testament

11 indexed usages in New Testament.

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.

Acts 15:20 KJV

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

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?

Strong's G1497 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

64 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 31:19 Septuagint / Brenton

And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father’s images.

Genesis 31:34 Septuagint / Brenton

And Rachel took the idols, and cast them among the camels’ packs, and sat upon them.

Genesis 31:35 Septuagint / Brenton

And she said to her father, Be not indignant, Sir; I cannot rise up before thee, for it is with me according to the manner of women. Laban searched in all the house, and found not the images.

Strong's G1497 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

18 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Tobit 14:6 Septuagint / Brenton

And all nations shall turn, and fear the Lord God truly, and shall bury their idols.

1 Maccabees 1:43 Septuagint / Brenton

Yea, many also of the Israelites consented to his religion, and sacrificed unto idols, and profaned the Sabbath.

1 Maccabees 3:48 Septuagint / Brenton

and laid open the book of the law, wherein the heathen had sought to paint the likeness of their images.

Usage Excerpts

First 93 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1497.

Genesis 31:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole her father’s images.
Genesis 31:34 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Rachel took the idols, and cast them among the camels’ packs, and sat upon them.
Genesis 31:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And she said to her father, Be not indignant, Sir; I cannot rise up before thee, for it is with me according to the manner of women. Laban searched in all the house, and found not the images.
Exodus 20:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not make to thyself an idol, nor likeness of anything, whatever things are in the heaven above, and whatever are in the earth beneath, and whatever are in the waters under the earth.
Leviticus 19:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall not follow idols, and ye shall not make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
Leviticus 26:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will render your pillars desolate, and will utterly destroy your wooden images made with hands; and I will lay your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall loathe you.
Numbers 25:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they called them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshiped their idols.
Numbers 33:52 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall destroy all that dwell in the land before your face, and ye shall abolish their high places, and all their molten images ye shall destroy, and ye shall demolish all their pillars.
Deuteronomy 5:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou shalt not make to thyself an image, nor likeness of anything, whatever things are in the heaven above, and whatever are in the earth beneath, and whatever are in the waters under the earth.
Deuteronomy 29:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For ye know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, how we came through the midst of the nations through whom ye came.
Deuteronomy 32:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have provoked me to jealousy with that which is not God, They have exasperated me with their idols; And I will provoke them to jealousy with them that are no nation, I will anger them with a nation void of understanding.
1 Kingdoms 31:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they turned him, and stripped off his armor, and sent it into the land of the Philistines, sending round glad tidings to their idols and to the people.
3 Kingdoms 11:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
of the nations concerning whom the Lord forbade the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall not go in to them, and they shall not come in to you, lest they turn away your hearts after their idols: Solomon clove to these in love.
3 Kingdoms 11:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then Solomon built a high place to Chemosh the idol of Moab, and to their king the idol of the children of Ammon,
3 Kingdoms 11:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thus he acted toward all his strange wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their idols.
3 Kingdoms 11:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because he forsook me, and sacrificed to Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and to Chemosh, and to the idols of Moab, and to their king the abomination of the children of Ammon, and he walked not in my ways, to do that which was right before me, as David his father did.
4 Kingdoms 17:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they served the idols, of which the Lord said to them, Ye shall not do this thing against the Lord.
4 Kingdoms 21:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Forasmuch as Manasseh the king of Judah has wrought all these evil abominations, beyond all that the Amorite did, who lived before him, and has led Judah also into sin by their idols,
4 Kingdoms 21:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he walked in all the way in which his father walked, and served the idols which his father served, and worshiped them.
4 Kingdoms 23:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Moreover Josiah removed the sorcerers, and the wizards, and the teraphim, and the idols, and all the abominations that had been set up in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might keep the words of the law that were written in the book, which Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.
1 Chronicles 10:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they stripped him, and took his head, and his armor, and sent them into the land of the Philistines round about, to proclaim the glad tidings to their idols, and to the people.
1 Chronicles 16:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For all the gods of the nations are idols; But our God made the heavens.
2 Chronicles 11:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he made for himself priests of the high places, and for the idols, and for the vanities, and for the calves which Jeroboam made.
2 Chronicles 14:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he removed from all the cities of Judah the altars and the idols, and established in quietness
2 Chronicles 15:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he removed Maacah his mother from being priestess to Asherah; and he cut down the idol, and burned it in the brook of Kidron.
2 Chronicles 17:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, for he walked in the first ways of his father, and did not seek to idols;
2 Chronicles 23:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and tore down it and its altars, and they ground his images to powder, and they slew Matthan the priest of Baal before his altars.
2 Chronicles 24:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they forsook the house of the Lord God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and idols: and there was wrath upon Judah and Jerusalem in that day.
2 Chronicles 28:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, for he made graven images.
2 Chronicles 33:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasseh did: and Amon sacrificed to all the idols which his father Manasseh had made, and served them.
2 Chronicles 34:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he pulled down the altars and the groves, and he cut the idols in small pieces, and cut off all the high places from all the land of Israel, and returned to Jerusalem.
Psalms 96:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let all that worship graven images be ashamed, Who boast of their idols; Worship him, all ye his angels.
Psalms 113:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The idols of the nations are silver and gold, The works of men’s hands.
Psalms 134:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, The works of men’s hands.
Psalms 151:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I went forth to meet the Philistine; And he cursed me by his idols.
Isaiah 1:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For they shall be ashamed of their idols, which they delighted in, and they are made ashamed of the gardens which they coveted.
Isaiah 10:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For as I did to Samaria and her idols, so will I do also to Jerusalem and her idols.
Isaiah 27:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I shall have taken away his sin; when they shall have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.
Isaiah 30:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt pollute the plated idols, and thou shalt grind to powder the gilded ones, and shalt scatter them as the water of a removed woman, and thou shalt thrust them forth as dung.
Isaiah 37:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and have cast their idols into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; and they have cast them away.
Isaiah 41:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For from among the nations, behold, there was no one; and of their idols there was none to declare anything: and if I should ask them, Whence are ye? they could not answer me.
Isaiah 48:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I told thee of old what should be before it came upon thee; I made it known to thee, lest thou shouldest say, My idols have done it for me; and shouldest say, My graven and molten images have commanded me.
Isaiah 57:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
who call upon idols under the leafy trees, slaying your children in the valleys among the rocks?
Jeremiah 9:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
but went after the lusts of their evil heart, and after the idols which their fathers taught them to worship:
Jeremiah 14:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Is there anyone among the idols of the Gentiles that can give rain? and will the sky yield his fullness at their bidding? Art not thou he? we will even wait on thee, O Lord: for thou hast made all these things.
Jeremiah 16:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
O Lord, thou art my strength, and my help, and my refuge in days of evil: to thee the Gentiles shall come from the end of the earth, and shall say, How vain were the idols which our fathers procured to themselves, and there is no help in them.
Ezekiel 6:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And your altars shall be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats; and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
Ezekiel 6:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and in all your habitations: the cities shall be made desolate, and the high places utterly laid waste; that your altars may be destroyed, and your idols be broken to pieces, and your consecrated plats be abolished.
Ezekiel 6:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Then ye shall know that I am the Lord, when your slain are in the midst of your idols round about your altars, on every high hill, and under every shady tree, where they offered a sweet savor to all their idols.
Ezekiel 8:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So I went in and looked; and beheld vain abominations, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon them round about.
Ezekiel 16:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou didst take of thy garments, and madest to thyself idols of needlework, and didst go a-whoring after them; therefore thou shalt never come in, nor shall the like take place.
Ezekiel 18:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and has oppressed the poor and needy, and has committed robbery, and not restored a pledge, and has set his eyes upon idols, has wrought iniquities,
Ezekiel 23:39 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, they also went into my sanctuary to profane it: and whereas they did thus in the midst of my house;
Ezekiel 36:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Son of man, the house of Israel dwelt upon their land, and defiled it by their way, and with their idols, and with their uncleannesses; and their way was before me like the uncleanness of a removed woman.
Ezekiel 36:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be purged from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, and I will cleanse you.
Ezekiel 37:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
that they may no more defile themselves with their idols; and I will deliver them from all their transgressions whereby they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be to me a people, and I the Lord will be to them a God.
Ezekiel 44:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because they ministered to them before their idols, and it became to the house of Israel a punishment of iniquity; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, saith the Lord God.
Hosea 4:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ephraim, joined with idols, has laid stumbling blocks in his own way.
Hosea 8:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They have made kings for themselves, but not by me: they have ruled, but they did not make it known to me: of their silver and their gold they have made images to themselves, that they might be destroyed.
Hosea 13:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now they have sinned increasingly, and have made for themselves a molten image of their silver, according to the fashion of idols, the work of artificers accomplished for them: they say, Sacrifice men, for the calves have come to an end.
Hosea 14:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
What has he to do anymore with idols? I have afflicted him, and I will strengthen him: I am as a leafy juniper tree. From me is thy fruit found.
Micah 1:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall cut in pieces all the graven images, and all that she has hired they shall burn with fire, and I will utterly destroy all her idols: because she has gathered of the hires of fornication, and of the hires of fornication has she amassed wealth.
Habakkuk 2:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
What profits it the graven image, that they have graven it? one has made it a molten work, a false image; for the maker has trusted in his work, to make dumb idols.
Zechariah 13:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will utterly destroy the names of the idols from off the land, and there shall be no longer any remembrance of them: and I will cut off the false prophets and the evil spirit from the land.
Acts 7:41 New Testament, KJV
And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Acts 15:20 New Testament, KJV
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Romans 2:22 New Testament, KJV
Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
1 Corinthians 8:4 New Testament, KJV
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
1 Corinthians 8:7 New Testament, KJV
Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
1 Corinthians 10:19 New Testament, KJV
What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
1 Corinthians 12:2 New Testament, KJV
Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
2 Corinthians 6:16 New Testament, 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 them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
1 Thessalonians 1:9 New Testament, 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;
1 John 5:21 New Testament, KJV
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Revelation 9:20 New Testament, KJV
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
Tobit 14:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And all nations shall turn, and fear the Lord God truly, and shall bury their idols.
1 Maccabees 1:43 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Yea, many also of the Israelites consented to his religion, and sacrificed unto idols, and profaned the Sabbath.
1 Maccabees 3:48 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and laid open the book of the law, wherein the heathen had sought to paint the likeness of their images.
1 Maccabees 13:47 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
So Simon was appeased toward them, and fought no more against them, but put them out of the city, and cleansed the houses wherein the idols were, and so entered into it with songs and thanksgiving.
2 Maccabees 12:40 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now under the coats of everyone that was slain they found things consecrated to the idols of the Jamnites, which is forbidden the Jews by the law. Then every man saw that this was the cause wherefore they were slain.
3 Maccabees 4:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The king was filled with great and constant joy, and celebrated banquets before the temple idols. His erring heart, far from the truth, and his profane mouth, gave glory to idols, deaf and incapable of speaking or aiding, and uttered unworthy speech against the Greatest God.
Wisdom of Solomon 14:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore even upon the idols of the Gentiles shall there be a visitation: Because in the creature of God they are become an abomination, And stumbling blocks to the souls of men, And a snare to the feet of the unwise.
Wisdom of Solomon 14:12 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the devising of idols was the beginning of spiritual fornication, And the invention of them the corruption of life.
Wisdom of Solomon 14:27 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For the worshiping of idols not to be named Is the beginning, the cause, and the end, of all evil.
Wisdom of Solomon 14:29 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For insomuch as their trust is in idols which have no life, Though they swear falsely, yet they look not to be hurt.
Wisdom of Solomon 14:30 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Howbeit for both causes shall they be justly punished: Both because they thought not well of God, giving heed unto idols, And also unjustly swore in deceit, despising holiness.
Wisdom of Solomon 15:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For they counted all the idols of the heathen to be gods: Which neither have the use of eyes to see, Nor noses to draw breath, Nor ears to hear, Nor fingers of hands to handle; And as for their feet, they are slow to go.
Wisdom of Sirach 30:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For neither can it eat nor smell: So is he that is persecuted of the Lord.
Letter of Jeremiah 1:72 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall know them to be no gods by the bright purple that rotteth upon them: and they themselves afterward shall be eaten, and shall be a reproach in the country.
Daniel 1:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king told Ashpenaz his chief eunuch, to bring in some of the captive children of Israel, and of the seed of the kingdom, and of the princes;
Daniel 1:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the king appointed them a daily portion from the king’s table, and from the wine which he drank; and gave orders to nourish them three years, and that afterward they should stand before the king.
Book 152 1:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Book 152 1:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1497, grouped by book.

Genesis 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 9 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 8 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 11 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Acts 2 usages, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
1 Corinthians 4 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Thessalonians 1 usage, New Testament
1 John 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 1 usage, New Testament
Tobit 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 3 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 6 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Letter of Jeremiah 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Daniel 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Book 152 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G1497 FAQ

What does eidolon (εἴδωλον) mean?

Eidolon (Strong's G1497) is a Greek word most simply glossed "idol". eidolon (ei'-do-lon) n. 1. an image, idol (i.e. for worship) 2. (by implication) a heathen god

How many times is eidolon (εἴδωλον) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 93 linked usages for Strong's G1497 across 34 books.

Where can I study eidolon (εἴδωλον) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1497 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate eidolon (εἴδωλον)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as idols and idol. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G1497 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 64 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 18 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1497, with linked reader references where each row is available.