STRONGS G1493:
εἰδωλεῖον [
-λιον T WH; see
Ι, ι],
-ου,
τό, (
εἴδωλον, which see; cf. '
Ἀσκληπεῖον,
Ἀπολλωνεῖον,
Ἡρακλεῖον, etc. [Winers Grammar, 95 (90)]),
an idol's temple, temple consecrated to idols:
1 Corinthians 8:10 (1 Macc. 1:47; 1 Macc. 10:83; 1 Esdr. 2:9; not found in secular authors; for in the fragment from Sophocles [152 Dindorf] in Plutarch, de amico et adul. c. 36
ἑδωλια has of late been restored).
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