1 Kings 15:13
And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
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Idol
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1 Corinthians 10:19
What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
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4 occurrences in 3 verses.
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εἴδωλον
eídōlon · i'-do-lon
4 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
an image (i.e. for worship); by implication, a heathen god, or (plural) the worship of such
Strong's KJV usage: :--idol.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 7:41Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 10:19
Open full G1497 profile →מִפְלֶצֶת
miphletseth · mif-leh'-tseth
4 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a terror, i.e. an idol
Strong's KJV usage: idol.
Strong's first: 1 Kings 15:13Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 15:16
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çemel · seh'-mel
2 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
a likeness
Strong's KJV usage: figure, idol, image.
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 33:7Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 33:15
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eidōlóthyton · i-do-loth'-oo-ton
1 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
an image-sacrifice, i.e. part of an idolatrous offering
Strong's KJV usage: :--(meat, thing that is) offered (in sacrifice, sacrificed) to (unto) idols.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 8:7Strong's last: 1 Corinthians 8:7
Open full G1494 profile →אָוֶן
ʼâven · aw-ven'
1 times translated as this KJV form78 total Strong's occurrences
strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
Strong's KJV usage: affliction, evil, false, idol, iniquity, mischief, mourners(-ing), naught, sorrow, unjust, unrighteous, vain, vanity, wicked(-ness). Compare 369.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 66:3Strong's last: Isaiah 66:3
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ʼĕlîyl · el-eel'
1 times translated as this KJV form20 total Strong's occurrences
good for nothing, by analogy vain or vanity; specifically an idol
Strong's KJV usage: idol, no value, thing of nought.
Strong's first: Zechariah 11:17Strong's last: Zechariah 11:17
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ʻetseb · eh'-tseb
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
an earthen vessel; usually (painful) toil; also a pang (whether of body or mind)
Strong's KJV usage: grievous, idol, labor, sorrow.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 22:28Strong's last: Jeremiah 22:28
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ʻôtseb · o'-tseb
1 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
an idol (as fashioned); also pain (bodily or mental)
Strong's KJV usage: idol, sorrow, × wicked.
Strong's first: Isaiah 48:5Strong's last: Isaiah 48:5
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H4656
And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
H4656
And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
H5566
And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
H5566
And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
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idol
I'DOL, noun [Latin idolum; Gr. form or to see.]
1. An image, form or representation, usually of a man or other animal, consecrated as an object of worship; a pagan deity. Idols are usually statues or images, carved out of wood or stone, or formed of metals, particularly silver or gold.
The gods of the nations are idols. Psalms 96:5.
2. An image.
Nor ever idol seemed so much alive.
3. A person loved and honored to adoration. The prince was the idol of the people.
4. Any thing on which we set our affections; that to which we indulge an excessive and sinful attachment.
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. 1 John 5:1.
An idol is any thing which usurps the place of God in the hearts of his rational creatures.
5. A representation. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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