Greek adjective · G1494
εἰδωλόθυτον
eidolothytoni-do-loth'-oo-ton
sacrificed to idols
9 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: eidōlóthyton
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1494is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1494
an image-sacrifice, i.e. part of an idolatrous offering
The King James renders it: (meat, thing that is) offered (in sacrifice, sacrificed) to (unto) idols.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
eidolothyton is rendered "sacrificed to idols". It stands 9 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Five of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 15:29You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
Acts 15:29εἰδωλοθύτων
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's nine uses are in 1 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- idol-sacrifices6
- an idol-sacrifice2
- from idol-sacrifices1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| εἴδω | eido | to perceive: know | Uses374 |
| εἴδωλον | eidolon | idol | Uses11 |
| εἰδωλολάτρης | eidololatres | idolater | Uses7 |
| εἰδωλολατρεία | eidololatreia | idolatry | Uses4 |
| εἰδωλεῖον | eidoleion | idol's temple | Uses1 |
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- εἰδωλόθυτα3
- εἰδωλοθύτων3
- εἰδωλόθυτον2
- εἰδωλόθυτόν1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter plural3A-APN
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter plural3A-GPN
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter singular2A-ASN
- adjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1A-NSN
Acts
two uses
You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
- εἰδωλοθύτωνeidolothutonadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: from idol-sacrifices
As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality.”
- εἰδωλόθυτονeidolothutonadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: idol-sacrifices
1 Corinthians
five uses
Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
- εἰδωλοθύτωνeidolothutonadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: idol-sacrifices
So about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world, and that there is no God but one.
- εἰδωλοθύτωνeidolothutonadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter pluraltagged: idol-sacrifices
But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.
- εἰδωλόθυτονeidolothutonadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: an idol-sacrifice
For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?
- εἰδωλόθυταeidolothutaadjective · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: idol-sacrifices
Am I suggesting, then, that food sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
- εἰδωλόθυτόνeidolothutonadjective · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: an idol-sacrifice
Revelation
two uses
But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.
- εἰδωλόθυταeidolothutaadjective · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: idol-sacrifices
But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
- εἰδωλόθυταeidolothutaadjective · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: idol-sacrifices
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.