STRONGS G1497:
εἴδωλον,
-ου,
τό, (
εἶδος [cf. Winers Grammar, 96 (91);
Etym. Magn. 296, 9]), in Greek writings from Homer down,
an image, likeness, i. e. whatever represents the form of an object, either real or imaginary; used of the shades of the departed (in Homer), of apparitions, spectres, phantoms of the mind, etc.; in Biblical writings [
an idol, i. e.]:
1. the image of a heathen god:
Acts 7:41;
1 Corinthians 12:2;
Revelation 9:20, (
Isaiah 30:22;
2 Chronicles 23:17, etc.;
θεῶν ἤ δαιμόνων εἴδωλα, Polybius 31, 3, 13);
2. a false god:
Acts 15:20 (on which see
ἀλίσγημα);
Romans 2:22;
1 Corinthians 8:4,
7;
1 Corinthians 10:19;
2 Corinthians 6:16;
1 Thessalonians 1:9 (often in the
Sept.);
φυλάσσειν ἑαυτὸν ἀπὸ τ.
εἰδώλων, to guard oneself from all manner of fellowship with heathen worship,
1 John 5:21.
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