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H457Hebrew

אֱלִיל

Definition and meaning

eliyl (el-eel') adj. 1. good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity 2. specifically an idol [apparently from H408] KJV: idol, no value, thing of nought. Root(s): H408

Tagged KJV passages

18 matching verses - 20.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

Leviticus 19:4

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

Matched English: idols
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.

Matched English: idols
1 Chronicles 16:26

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

Matched English: idols
Job 13:4

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

Matched English: value
Psalms 96:5

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

Matched English: idols
Psalms 97:7

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

Matched English: idols
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:

Matched English: idols
Isaiah 2:18

And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

Matched English: idols
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;

Matched English: idols, idols
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;

Matched English: idols
Isaiah 10:11

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

Matched English: 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.

Matched English: idols
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.

Matched English: idols
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.

Matched English: idols, idols
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.

Matched English: nought
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.

Matched English: images
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?

Matched English: 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.

Matched English: idol