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Greek noun (masculine) · G1496

εἰδωλολάτρης

eidololatresi-do-lol-at'-race

idolater

7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: eidōlolátrēs

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1496is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 3 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 3
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G1496

an image- (servant or) worshipper (literally or figuratively)

The King James renders it: idolater.

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

eidololatres is rendered "idolater". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across three books.

  • Four of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Corinthians 5:10I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
  • The Greek text spells it three different ways.

The first use

I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

1 Corinthians 5:10εἰδωλολάτραις

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Four of the word's seven uses are in 1 Corinthians.

The other 24 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • idolaters3
  • an idolater2
  • to idolaters1
  • with idolaters —1

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.

εἴδωeidoto perceive: knowUses374
εἴδωλονeidolonidolUses11
εἰδωλόθυτονeidolothytonsacrificed to idolsUses9
εἰδωλολατρείαeidololatreiaidolatryUses4
εἰδωλεῖονeidoleionidol's templeUses1

All 7, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

3 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

  • εἰδωλολάτραι3
  • εἰδωλολάτραις2
  • εἰδωλολάτρης2

The grammar of each form

  • noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural3N-NPM
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural2N-DPM
  • noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2N-NSM

1 Corinthians

four uses
  • I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.

    1 Corinthians 5:10

    • εἰδωλολάτραιςeidololatraisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: with idolaters —
  • But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.

    1 Corinthians 5:11

    • εἰδωλολάτρηςeidololatresnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: an idolater
  • Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

    1 Corinthians 6:9

    • εἰδωλολάτραιeidololatrainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: idolaters
  • Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”

    1 Corinthians 10:7

    • εἰδωλολάτραιeidololatrainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: idolaters

Ephesians

one use
  • For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

    Ephesians 5:5

    • εἰδωλολάτρηςeidololatresnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: an idolater

Revelation

two uses
  • But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

    Revelation 21:8

    • εἰδωλολάτραιςeidololatraisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: to idolaters
  • But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

    Revelation 22:15

    • εἰδωλολάτραιeidololatrainoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: idolaters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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