Strong's Hebrew · H457
אֱלִיל
ʼĕlîyl · el-eel'
Definitiongood for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity; specifically an idol
Derivationapparently from H408 (אַל);
KJV usageidol, no value, thing of nought.
Occurrences19 in the KJV · 17 verses
אֱלִיל in Scripture
Leviticus 19:4
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
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.
1 Chronicles 16:26
For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
Job 13:4
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Psalms 96:5
For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
Psalms 97:7
Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
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:
Isaiah 2:18
And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
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;
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;
Isaiah 10:11
Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her 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.
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