Elil אֱלִיל

Elil (Hebrew אֱלִיל, Strong's H457) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “idol”. It occurs 20 times in 18 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Topics

• Idolatry

Verses

Every verse with Elil, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Leviticus

• Leviticus 19:4
  Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.Do not turn to idols or make for 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.“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 16:26
  For all the gods of the people are idols: but the Lord made the heavens.For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.

Job

• Job 13:4
  But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.

Psalms

• Psalm 96:5
  For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.
• Psalm 97:7
  Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.All worshipers of images are put to shame— those who boast in idols. Worship Him, all you gods!

Isaiah

• 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:Their land is full of idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made.
• Isaiah 2:18
  And the idols he shall utterly abolish.and the idols will vanish completely.
• 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;In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold— the idols they made to worship.
• 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;As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
• Isaiah 10:11
  Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also 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.This is the burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within them.
• Isaiah 19:3
  And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be emptied out from among them, and I will frustrate their plans, so that they will resort to idols and spirits of the dead, to mediums and spiritists.
• Isaiah 31:7
  For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.For on that day, every one of you will reject the idols of silver and gold that your own hands have sinfully made.

Jeremiah

• 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 spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.“The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 30:13
  Thus saith the Lord God; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.This is what the Lord GOD says: I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis. There will no longer be a prince in Egypt, and I will instill fear in that land.

Habakkuk

• Habakkuk 2:18
  What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.

Zechariah

• Zechariah 11:17
  Woe to the idol 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.Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!”

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).