eidōlothyton · food offered to idols

What it means

eidōlothyton (εἰδωλόθυτον) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “food offered to idols”.

What has been sacrificed to an idol, especially meat.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Meat and food offered to idols.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• food sacrificed to idols ×6
• offered in sacrifice ×1
• sacrificed to an idol ×1
• things sacrificed to idols ×1
• what has been sacrificed to idols ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Acts×2
• 1 Corinthians×6
• Revelation×2

• Acts 15:29

  that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

• Acts 21:25

  But as for the nations who have believed, we wrote, having decided that they should guard themselves against both what has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what is strangled and sexual immorality.”

• 1 Corinthians 8:1

  Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

• 1 Corinthians 8:4

  So, concerning the eating of food sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.

• 1 Corinthians 8:7

  But not in everyone is this knowledge; but some, through being accustomed until now to the idol, eat the food as sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

• 1 Corinthians 8:10

  For if anyone sees you, the one who has knowledge, reclining at table in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, since he is weak, be built up to eat food sacrificed to idols?

• 1 Corinthians 10:19

  What then am I saying? That food sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

• 1 Corinthians 10:28

  But if someone says to you, This has been offered in sacrifice, do not eat it, because of that one who told you, and because of conscience;

• Revelation 2:14

  But I have a few things against you, that you have there some who hold fast the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

• Revelation 2:20

  But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and deceives my slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.