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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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Isaiah 45:16
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 45:16 · retained source text

They shall be ashamed, and also confounded all of them: they shall goe to confusion together that are makers of idoles.

1611 marginal noteChap.44.11.

Isaiah 46:1
BEL boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: your carriages were heavy loaden; they are a burden to the weary beast.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Isaiah 46:1 · retained source text

¶ Bel boweth downe, Nebo stoupeth, their idoles were vpon the beasts, and vpon the cattell: your carriages were heauie loaden, they are a burden to the wearie beast.

Isaiah 57:5
Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Isaiah 57:5 · retained source text

Inflaming your selues with idoles vnder euery greene tree, slaying the children in the valleys vnder the cliftes of the rockes?

1611 marginal noteOr, among the okes.

1611 marginal note1.Kin.16.4.

Jeremiah 50:2
Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Jeremiah 50:2 · retained source text

Declare yee among the nations, and publish, and set vp a standart, publish and conceale not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces, her idols are confounded, her Images are broken in pieces.

1611 marginal noteHebr. lift vp.

Jeremiah 50:38
A drought is upon her waters; and they shall be dried up: for it is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Jeremiah 50:38 · retained source text

A drought is vpon her waters, and they shalbe dried vp: for it is the land of grauen images, and they are madde vpon their idoles.

Ezekiel 6:4
And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols.
1 word occurrence in this verse
The 1611 reading & marginal notes
1611 witness · Ezekiel 6:4 · retained source text

And your altars shalbe desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast downe your slaine men before your idoles.

1611 marginal noteOr, sunne images, and so vers. 6.

Ezekiel 6:5
And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 6:5 · retained source text

And I will lay the dead carkeises of the children of Israel before their idoles, and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

1611 marginal noteHeb. giue.

Ezekiel 6:6
In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 6:6 · retained source text

In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shalbe desolate, that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your images may bee cut downe, and your workes may be abolished.

Ezekiel 6:9
And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 6:9 · retained source text

And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations, whither they shalbe caried captiues, because I am broken with their whorish heart which hath departed from me, and with their eyes which goe a whoring after their idoles: and they shall loathe themselues for the euils which they haue committed in all their abominations.

Ezekiel 6:13
Then shall ye know that I am the Lord, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
2 word occurrences in this verse
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1611 witness · Ezekiel 6:13 · retained source text

Then shal ye know that I am the LORD, when their slaine men shalbe among their idoles round about their altars, vpon euery high hill in all the tops of the mountaines, and vnder euery greene tree, and vnder euery thicke oke, the place where they did offer sweet sauour to all their idoles.

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