Bible Study Lessons
Greek words in the Bible
that are Anglicized into English
εἴδωλονG1497
eidōlon, image, idol
εἰδωλολατρείαG1495
IDOLATRYG1495 is a compound word that means “image worship (literally or figuratively)” as in Colossians 3:5
and is translated in the KJV Bible as “idolatry”:
εἰδωλολατρεία = (1) eidolonG1497 (image) plus (2) latreiaG2999 (worship). Latreia is usually translated in English as “service” (e.g., Romans 12:1). It is one of the two worship words used by Jesus in response to the Devil’s temptations (Matthew 4:10).
Colossians 3:5 teaches us that we can be guilty of idolatry with sins such as greed and covetousness.
FROM ETYMONLINE.COM
idol (n.)
mid-13c., "image of a deity as an object of (pagan) worship," from Old French idole "idol, graven image, pagan god" (11c.), from Latin idolum "image (mental or physical), form," especially "apparition, ghost," but used in Church Latin for "false god, image of a pagan deity as an object of worship." This is from Greek eidolon "mental image, apparition, phantom," also "material image, statue," in Ecclesiastical Greek," a pagan idol," from eidos "form, shape; likeness, resemblance" (see -oid).
A Greek word for "image," used in Jewish and early Christian writers for "image of a false god," hence also "false god." The Germanic languages tended to form a word for it from the reverse direction, from "god" to "false god," hence "image of a false god" (compare Old English afgod, Danish afgud, Swedish avgud, Old High German abgot, compounds with af-/ab- "away, away from" (source of off) + god).
The older Greek senses sometimes have been used in English. Figurative sense of "something idolized" is first recorded 1560s (in Middle English the figurative sense was "someone who is false or untrustworthy"). Meaning "a person so adored, human object of adoring devotion" is from 1590s.
FOR DERIVED ENGLISH WORDS SEE “RELATED WORDS” BELOW.
KING JAMES NEW TESTAMENT USE OF “IDOL/S”
εἴδωλονG1497 eidōlon i'-do-lon
From G1491; an image (that is, for worship); by implication a heathen god, or (plural) the worship of such: - idol.
Total KJV occurrences: 11
KLV's verses for G1491:
Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
Acts 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Romans 2:22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
1 Corinthians 8:4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
1 Corinthians 8:7 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
1 Corinthians 10:19 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
1 Corinthians 12:2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
2 Corinthians 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
1 Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;
1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
Revelation 9:20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
WORDS LIKE IDOL IN NEW TESTAMENT
Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries
εἰδωλολάτρηςG1496 eidōlolatrēs i-do-lol-at'-race
From G1497 and the base of G3000; an image (servant or) worshipper (literally or figuratively): - idolater.
Total KJV occurrences: 7
idolaters, 5
1 Corinthians 5:10, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Corinthians 10:7, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:15
idolater, 2
1 Corinthians 5:11, Eph_5:5
εἰδωλολατρείαG1495 eidōlolatreia i-do-lol-at-ri'-ah
From G1497 and G2999; image worship (literally or figuratively): - idolatry.
Total KJV occurrences: 4
idolatry, 3 1 Corinthians 10:14, Galatians 5:20, Colossians 3:5
idolatries, 1 1Peter 4:3
εἰδωλόθυτονG1494 eidōlothuton i-do-loth'-oo-ton
Neuter of a compound of G1497 and a presumed derivative of G2380; an image sacrifice, that is, part of an idolatrous offering: - (meat, thing that is) offered (in sacrifice, sacrificed) to (unto) idols.
Total KJV occurrences: 10
idols, 9
Acts 15:29, Acts 21:25, 1 Corinthians 8:1, 1 Corinthians 8:4, 1 Corinthians 8:10, 1 Corinthians 10:19, 1 Corinthians 10:28, Revelation 2:14, Revelation 2:20
offered, 8
Acts 15:29, Acts 21:25, 1 Corinthians 8:1, 1 Corinthians 8:4, 1 Corinthians 8:7, 1 Corinthians 8:10, 1 Corinthians 10:19, 1 Corinthians 10:28
sacrifice, 3
1 Corinthians 8:4, 1 Corinthians 10:19, 1 Corinthians 10:28
sacrificed, 2
Revelation 2:14, Revelation 2:20
idol, 1
1 Corinthians 8:7
εἰδωλεῖονG1493 eidōleion i-do-li'-on
Neuter of a presumed derivative of G1497; an image fane: - idol’s temple.
idol’s, 1
1 Corinthians 8:10
RELATED WORDS IN ENGLISH TO IDOL
idolize (v.)1590s, "to admire excessively," from idol + -ize. Literal sense "worship as an idol" is from 1660s. Related: Idolized; idolizing.Related entries & more
idolatry (n.) "worship of idols and images," mid-13c., from Old French idolatrie (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *idolatria, contraction of Late Latin idololatria (Tertullian), from Ecclesiastical Greek eidololatria "worship of idols," from eidolon "image" (see idol) + latreia "worship, service" (see -latry).
idolater (n.) late 14c., ydolatrer "idol-worshipper," from Old French idolatre, contracted from Late Latin idololatres, from Ecclesiastical Greek eidololatres "idol-worshipper," related to eidolatria (see idolatry).
marionette (n.)"a puppet worked by strings," c. 1620, literally "little little Mary," from French marionette (16c.), diminutive of Old French mariole "figurine, idol, picture of the Virgin Mary," itself a diminutive of Marie (see Mary). For ending, see -ette.
eidolon (n.)1801, "a shade, a specter," from Greek eidolon "appearance, reflection in water or a mirror," later "mental image, apparition, phantom," also "material image, statue, image of a god, idol," from eidos "form, shape" (see -oid). By 1881 in English as "a likeness, an image."
idolization (n.) 1773, noun of action from idolize
demon (n.) c. 1200, "an evil spirit, malignant supernatural being, an incubus, a devil," from Latin daemon "spirit," from Greek daimōn "deity, divine power; lesser god; guiding spirit, tutelary deity" (sometimes including souls of the dead); "one's genius, lot, or fortune;" from PIE *dai-mon- "divider, provider" (of fortunes or destinies), from root *da- "to divide."
SPECIAL NOTE: BASIC SOURCE WORD in Greek is εἴδω “to see”
εἶδοςG1491 i'-dos From G1492; “a view, that is, form (literally or figuratively)”: - appearance, fashion, shape, sight.
εἴδωG1492 i'-do A primary verb; used only in certain past tenses, the others being borrowed from the equivalent, G3700 and G3708; properly to see (literally or figuratively); by implication (in the perfect only) to know: - be aware, behold, X can (+ not tell), consider, (have) known (-ledge), look (on), perceive, see, be sure, tell, understand, wist, wot.
prepared by Gaylon West
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