{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H457",
  "lemma": "אֱלִיל",
  "transliteration": "ʼĕlîyl",
  "definition": "good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity; specifically an idol",
  "kjv": "idol, no value, thing of nought.",
  "occurrences": 19,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H408",
      "lemma": "אַל",
      "transliteration": "ʼal",
      "meaning": "not",
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    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "אֱלִיל n.m. insufficiency, worthlessness",
    "a. the shepherd of worthlessness = the worthless shepherd",
    "b. concr. worthless gods, idols"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 19:4",
      "text": "“‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/19?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 26:1",
      "text": "“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 2:8",
      "text": "Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/2?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 2:18",
      "text": "The idols shall utterly pass away.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/2?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 2:20",
      "text": "In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/2?v=20"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 10:10",
      "text": "As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 10:11",
      "text": "shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 19:1",
      "text": "The burden of Egypt. “Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/19?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 19:3",
      "text": "The spirit of the Egyptians will fail within them. I will destroy their counsel. They will seek the idols, the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/19?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 31:7",
      "text": "For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/31?v=7"
    }
  ],
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