eidōlon · idol

What it means

eidōlon (εἴδωλον) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “idol”.

Image of a false god.

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. An image of a false god, or that god.

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

How it is translated

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

• idols ×7
• idol ×4

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Acts×2
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×4
• 2 Corinthians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• 1 John×1
• Revelation×1

• Acts 7:41

  And they made a calf in those days and offered a sacrifice to the idol, and they were rejoicing in the works of their hands.

• Acts 15:20

  but should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from sexual immorality and from what is strangled and from blood.

• Romans 2:22

  You who say not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

• 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 10:19

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

• 1 Corinthians 12:2

  You know that when you were of the nations, you were carried away to mute idols, however you were led.

• 2 Corinthians 6:16

  And what agreement has the sanctuary of God with idols? For we are the sanctuary of the living God; just as God said, “I will dwell among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

• 1 Thessalonians 1:9

  For they themselves report about us what kind of welcome we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve as slaves a living and true God,

• 1 John 5:21

  Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

• Revelation 9:20

  And the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not even change their minds from the works of their hands, so as to stop worshiping the demons and the idols of gold and of silver and of bronze and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;