Idol
גִּלּוּלStrong’s H1544gillul (gil-lul)
Appears in 45 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gillul is the Hebrew word usually translated “idols their”, “idols your” and “idols”. It appears in 45 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.”
Meaning
- Idols
How it's translated
- idols their 11
- idols your 8
- the idols 6
- idols of 6
- idols his 4
- by idols their 3
- and by idols their 2
- and by idols your 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 36
- 2 Kings 4
- 1 Kings 2
- Leviticus 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Jeremiah 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 29:17And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
- 1 Kings 15:12And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
- 1 Kings 21:26And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
- 2 Kings 17:12For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
- 2 Kings 21:11Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
- 2 Kings 21:21And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
Hebrew dictionary
גִּלּוּל gillul · idol
idols
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “idol” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
I'DOL, noun
[Latin idolum; Gr. form or to see.]
- An image, form or representation, usually of a man or other animal, consecrated as an object of worship; a pagan deity.“The gods of the nations are idols” Psalms 96:5
- An image.
- A person loved and honored to adoration.
- 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” 1 John 5:21
All definitions
- A representation. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.