noun · masculine
eidōlolatros
Strong’sG1496
a worshipper of an image
stem eidōlolatr-7 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
*† εἰδωλολάτρης, -ου, ὁ
(< εἴδωλου + λάτρις, a hireling),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1496 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
idol-worshipper, idolater, [prev. work] 5.10, etc.
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | eidōlolatros2×εἰδωλολάτρης | eidōlolatrois3×εἰδωλολάτραι |
| object accusative | eidōlolatron | eidōlolatroin |
| direct address vocative | eidōlolatror | eidōlolatroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | eidōlolatrou | eidōlolatroiu |
| to, for dative | eidōlolatro | eidōlolatroi2×εἰδωλολάτραις |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
eidōlolatro is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
eidōlolatros“idolater”subjectnominative singular2×
1 Corinthians 5:11… onomazorōntos ateiō pornos ē pleonektos ē eidōlolatros ē loidoros ē methusos ē harpagos, …… is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard …
Ephesians 5:5… ē akathartos ē pleonektos, hem atō eidōlolatros, ouk echatō klēronomian en ta basileia …… or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom …
eidōlolatrois“idolaters”subjectnominative plural3×
1 Corinthians 6:9… klēronomali? mē planovōr; oute pornois oute eidōlolatrois oute moichois oute malakois oute arsenokoitois… deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit …
1 Corinthians 10:7mēde eidōlolatrois genovōr, kathōs tinois autoiu; hōsper grafotē; …Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As …
Revelation 22:15… pornois kai tois fonevois kai tois eidōlolatrois kai pantos filarōntos kai poiarōntos pseudem.… the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices …
eidōlolatroi“idolaters”to, fordative plural2×
1 Corinthians 5:10… ē toi pleonektoi kai harpagoi ē eidōlolatroi, epei ofeilave ara ek tou kosmou …… or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have …
Revelation 21:8… fonevoi kai pornoi kai farmakoi kai eidōlolatroi kai pantoi toi pseudēsoi tem merem …… and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will …