# G1497 εἴδωλον

εἴδωλον (eídōlon), Strong’s G1497: an image (i.e. for worship); by implication, a heathen god, or (plural) the worship of such KJV: idol. Occurs 95 times.

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*eídōlon* — an image (i.e. for worship); by implication, a heathen god, or (plural) the worship of such

KJV: idol

Derived from [εἶδος eîdos](https://besorah.bible/word/G1491) (a view, i.e. form)

Occurs 95 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Acts 7:41](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/7?v=41) — They made a calf in those days, and brought a sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their hands.
- [Acts 15:20](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/15?v=20) — but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is…
- [Romans 2:22](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/2?v=22) — You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
- [1 Corinthians 8:4](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/8?v=4) — Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that…
- [1 Corinthians 8:7](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/8?v=7) — However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of an idol until now, eat as of a thing…
- [1 Corinthians 10:19](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/10?v=19) — What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
- [1 Corinthians 12:2](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/12?v=2) — You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
- [2 Corinthians 6:16](https://besorah.bible/besorah/2-corinthians/6?v=16) — What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will…
- [1 Thessalonians 1:9](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-thessalonians/1?v=9) — For they themselves report concerning us what kind of a reception we had from you, and how you turned to God from idols…
- [Revelation 9:20](https://besorah.bible/besorah/revelation/9?v=20) — The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn’t repent of the works of their hands, that they…