# H457 אֱלִיל

אֱלִיל (ʼĕlîyl), Strong’s H457: good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity; specifically an idol KJV: idol, no value, thing of nought.. Occurs 19 times.

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*ʼĕlîyl* — good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity; specifically an idol

KJV: idol, no value, thing of nought.

Derived from [אַל ʼal](https://besorah.bible/word/H408) (not)

Occurs 19 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- אֱלִיל n.m. insufficiency, worthlessness
- a the shepherd of worthlessness = the worthless shepherd
- b concr. worthless gods, idols

## Where it occurs
- [Leviticus 19:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/19?v=4) — “‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.
- [Leviticus 26:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=1) — “‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up a carved image or a pillar, and you shall not…
- [Isaiah 2:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/2?v=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](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/2?v=18) — The idols shall utterly pass away.
- [Isaiah 2:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/2?v=20) — In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to…
- [Isaiah 10:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=10) — As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria,
- [Isaiah 10:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=11) — shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
- [Isaiah 19:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/19?v=1) — The burden of Egypt. “Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at…
- [Isaiah 19:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/19?v=3) — The spirit of the Egyptians will fail within them. I will destroy their counsel. They will seek the idols, the…
- [Isaiah 31:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/31?v=7) — For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold—sin which your own hands have made…