Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
idol
Usage: 1) of nought, good for nothing, worthless 1a) of physicians, a shepherd, a divination 1b) of false gods
Elil means “idol” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G457 — anoixis in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H457 אֱלִיל (eliyl) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. eliyl (el-eel') adj. 1. good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity 2. specifically an idol It has 18 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include idols, value, and idol. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
eliyl (el-eel') adj. 1. good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity 2. specifically an idol [apparently from H408] KJV: idol, no value, thing of nought. Root(s): H408
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idol
Usage: 1) of nought, good for nothing, worthless 1a) of physicians, a shepherd, a divination 1b) of false gods
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render eliyl, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Old 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.
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18 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
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.
For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
First 18 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H457.
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
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.
For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
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;
As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H457, grouped by book.
Elil (Strong's H457) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "idol". eliyl (el-eel') adj. 1. good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity 2. specifically an idol
This page currently indexes 18 linked usages for Strong's H457 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H457 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as idols, value, and idol. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.