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H0457אֱלִילe.lil

idolPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. Genesis: 0
  2. Exodus: 0
  3. 2
  4. Numbers: 0
  5. Deuteronomy: 0
  6. Joshua: 0
  7. Judges: 0
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 1 Samuel: 0
  10. 2 Samuel: 0
  11. 1 Kings: 0
  12. 2 Kings: 0
  13. 1
  14. 2 Chronicles: 0
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 1
  19. 2
  20. Proverbs: 0
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 10
  24. 1
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. 1
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. 1
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. 1
  39. Malachi: 0

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20 occurrences in 18 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Leviticus 19:4

    Turn ye not unto the idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

    הָ֣אֱלִילִ֔ים (אֱלִילִ֔ים) 'e.li.Lim “worthless idols”

  2. Leviticus 26:1

    Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am the LORD your God.

    אֱלִילִ֗ם 'e.li.Lim “worthless idols”

  3. 1 Chronicles 16:26

    For all the gods of the peoples are things of nought; but the LORD made the heavens.

    אֱלִילִ֔ים 'e.li.Lim “[are] worthless idols”

  4. Job 13:4

    But ye are plasterers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

    אֱלִ֣ל 'e.Lil “worthlessness”

  5. Psalms 96:5

    For all the gods of the peoples are things of nought; but the LORD made the heavens.

    אֱלִילִ֑ים 'e.li.Lim “[are] worthless idols”

  6. Psalms 97:7

    Ashamed be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of things of nought; bow down to Him, all ye gods.

    בָּאֱלִילִ֑ים (אֱלִילִ֑ים) 'e.li.Lim “worthless idols”

  7. Isaiah 2:8

    Their land also is full of idols; every one worshippeth the work of his own hands, that which his own fingers have made.

    אֱלִילִ֑ים 'e.li.Lim “idols”

  8. Isaiah 2:18

    And the idols shall utterly pass away.

    וְהָאֱלִילִ֖ים (אֱלִילִ֖ים) 'e.li.Lim “idols”

  9. Isaiah 2:20

    In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

    אֱלִילֵ֣י 'e.li.Lei “[the] idols of”אֱלִילֵ֣י 'e.li.Lei “[the] idols of”

  10. Isaiah 10:10

    As my hand hath reached the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did exceed them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

    הָאֱלִ֑יל (אֱלִ֑יל) 'e.Lil “idol”

  11. Isaiah 10:11

    Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?'

    וְלֶאֱלִילֶ֑יהָ (אֱלִילֶ֑י) 'e.li.Lei. “idols”

  12. Isaiah 19:1

    The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and cometh unto Egypt; and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at His presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt within it.

    אֱלִילֵ֤י 'e.li.Lei “[the] idols of”

  13. Isaiah 19:3

    And the spirit of Egypt shall be made empty within it; and I will make void the counsel thereof; and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the whisperers, and to the ghosts, and to the familiar spirits.

    הָֽאֱלִילִים֙ (אֱלִילִים֙) 'e.li.Lim “idols”

  14. Isaiah 31:7

    For in that day they shall cast away every man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

    אֱלִילֵ֣י 'e.li.Lei “[the] idols of”וֶאֱלִילֵ֖י (אֱלִילֵ֖י) 'e.li.Lei “[the] idols of”

  15. Jeremiah 14:14

    Then the LORD said unto me: 'The prophets prophesy lies in My name; I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I unto them; they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their own heart

    וֶֽאֱלִיל֙ (אֱלִיל֙) 'e.lul “an idol”

  16. Ezekiel 30:13

    Thus saith the Lord GOD: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the things of nought to cease from Noph; and there shall be no more a prince out of the land of Egypt; and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.

    אֱלִילִים֙ 'e.li.Lim “worthless idols”

  17. Habakkuk 2:18

    What profiteth the graven image, that the maker thereof hath graven it, even the molten image, and the teacher of lies; that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

    אֱלִילִ֥ים 'e.li.Lim “idols”

  18. Zechariah 11:17

    Woe to the worthless shepherd that leaveth the flock! The sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye; his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened.

    הָֽאֱלִיל֙ (אֱלִיל֙) 'e.Lil “worthlessness”