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idols

Meaning of “idols”

False objects of worship or devotion; images treated as gods.

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101 occurrences95 verses22 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Leviticus 19:4

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Leviticus 19:4
¶ Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · Leviticus 19:4 · retained source text

¶ Turne ye not vnto idoles, nor make to your selues 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.
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1611 witness · Leviticus 26:1 · retained source text

¶ Yee shall make you no Idoles nor grauen Image, neither reare you vp a standing image, neither shall yee set vp any Image of stone in your land, to bow downe vnto it: For I am the LORD your God.

1611 marginal noteOr, pillar.

1611 marginal noteOr, figured stone. Hebr. a stone of picture.

1611 marginal noteExod. 20.4. deut. 5.8. and 16.22. psal. 97.7.

Leviticus 26:30
And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Leviticus 26:30 · retained source text

And I will destroy your high places, and cut downe your images, and cast your carkeises vpon the carkeises of your idoles, and my soule shall abhorre you.

1611 marginal note2.Chro. 34.7.

Deuteronomy 29:17
And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Deuteronomy 29:17 · retained source text

And ye haue seene their abominations, and their idoles, wood, and stone, siluer, and gold, which were among them.)

1611 marginal noteHeb. donguie gods.

1 Samuel 31:9
And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 1 Samuel 31:9 · retained source text

And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about to publish it in the house of their idoles, and among the people.

1 Kings 15:12
And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading
1611 witness · 1 Kings 15:12 · retained source text

And hee tooke away the Sodomites out of the land, and remooued all the idoles that his fathers had made.

1 Kings 21:26
And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 1 Kings 21:26 · retained source text

And hee did very abominably in following Idoles, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

2 Kings 17:12
For they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
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1611 witness · 2 Kings 17:12 · retained source text

For they serued idoles, whereof the LORD had said vnto them, Yee shall not doe this thing.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 4.19.

2 Kings 21:11
Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 2 Kings 21:11 · retained source text

Because Manasseh king of Iudah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly aboue all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Iudah also to sinne with his idoles:

1611 marginal noteIere. 15.4.

2 Kings 21:21
And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · 2 Kings 21:21 · retained source text

And he walked in all the wayes that his father walked in, and serued the idoles that his father serued, and worshipped them:

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