Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H457: אֱלִיל

ʼĕlîyl · pronounced el-eel' · “idol”

Definition

good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity; specifically an idol

KJV translates it as: idol, no value, thing of nought.

Word origin: apparently from H408 (אַל);

Extended definition

1) of nought, good for nothing, worthless
1a) of physicians, a shepherd, a divination
1b) of false gods

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H457 is translated

  • the idols of ×5
  • worthless idols ×4
  • idols ×4
  • are worthless idols ×2
  • worthlessness ×2
  • idol ×1
  • its ×1
  • an idol ×1

Bible verses with H457 (ʼĕlîyl)

ʼĕlîyl appears in 18 verses.

  • Leviticus 19:4

    Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.

  • Leviticus 26:1

    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.

  • 1 Chronicles 16:26

    For all the gods of the people are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.

  • Job 13:4

    But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

  • Psalms 96:5

    For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.

  • Psalms 97:7

    Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.

  • Isaiah 2:8

    Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:

  • Isaiah 2:18

    And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

  • Isaiah 2:20

    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;

  • Isaiah 10:10

    As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

  • Isaiah 10:11

    Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

  • Isaiah 19:1

    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.

  • Isaiah 19:3

    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.

  • Isaiah 31:7

    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.

  • Jeremiah 14:14

    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.

  • Ezekiel 30:13

    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.

  • Habakkuk 2:18

    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?

  • Zechariah 11:17

    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.

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