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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H1544

גִּלּוּל

gillulghil-lool'

idol

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

Concordance spelling: gillûwl

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1544is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 6 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 40
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1544

properly, a log (as round); by implication, an idol

The King James renders it: idol.

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

gillul is rendered "idol". It stands 48 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.

  • Thirty-nine of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 26:30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.
  • The Greek text spells it forty different ways.

The first use

I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

Leviticus 26:30גִּלּוּלֵיכֶ֑ם

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

Where the word stands

Thirty-nine of the word's forty-eight uses are in Ezekiel.

The other 33 Old 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

  • idols their11
  • idols your8
  • idols of6
  • the idols6
  • idols his4
  • by idols their3
  • and by idols their2
  • and by idols your2
  • idols2
  • and by idols of1
  • idols its1
  • to idols their1

and 1 more, 48 uses in all

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.

גִּלְעָדִיGiladiGileaditeUses11
גִּלָּיוֹןgillayontabletUses2
גִּלְגָּלgilgalwheelUses1

All 48, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

40 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

  • גִּלּוּלֵ֖י3
  • גִּלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֑ם3
  • גִּלּוּלֵ֣י2
  • גִּלּוּלָיו֙2
  • הַגִּלֻּלִ֑ים2
  • וּבְגִלּוּלֵיהֶ֖ם2
  • בְּגִלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֖ם1
  • בְּגִלּֽוּלֵיהֶם֙1
  • בְּגִלּוּלֵיהֶֽם׃1
  • בְּגִלּוּלָֽיו׃ פ1
  • גִּלּוּלֵ֥י1
  • גִּלּוּלֶֽיהָ׃1

and 28 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural10HNcmpc/Sp3mp
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural7HNcmpc/Sp2mp
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)6HNcmpc
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural6HTd/Ncmpa
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular4HNcmpc/Sp3ms
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural4HR/Ncmpc/Sp3mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HC/R/Ncmpc/Sp3mp
  • noun · masculine plural2HNcmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncmpc
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HC/R/Ncmpc/Sp2fs
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HC/R/Ncmpc/Sp2mp
  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine plural1HNcmpc/Sp2fp

Leviticus

one use
  • I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your lifeless bodies on the lifeless remains of your idols; and My soul will despise you.

    Leviticus 26:30

    • גִּלּוּלֵיכֶ֑םgiluleikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: idols your

Deuteronomy

one use
  • You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

    Deuteronomy 29:17

    • גִּלֻּלֵיהֶ֑םgiluleihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: idols their

1 Kings

two uses
  • He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

    1 Kings 15:12

    • הַגִּלֻּלִ֔יםhagilulimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the idols
  • He committed the most detestable acts by going after idols, just like the Amorites whom the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.)

    1 Kings 21:26

    • הַגִּלֻּלִ֑יםhagilulimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the idols

2 Kings

four uses
  • They served idols, although the LORD had told them, “You shall not do this thing.”

    2 Kings 17:12

    • הַגִּלֻּלִ֑יםhagilulimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the idols
  • “Since Manasseh king of Judah has committed all these abominations, acting more wickedly than the Amorites who preceded him, and with his idols has caused Judah to sin,

    2 Kings 21:11

    • בְּגִלּוּלָֽיו׃ פbegilulavpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: with idols his
  • He walked in all the ways of his father, and he served and worshiped the idols his father had served.

    2 Kings 21:21

    • הַגִּלֻּלִים֙hagilulimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the idols
  • Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.

    2 Kings 23:24

    • הַגִּלֻּלִ֜יםhagilulimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the idols

Jeremiah

one use
  • “Announce and declare to the nations; lift up a banner and proclaim it; hold nothing back when you say, ‘Babylon is captured; Bel is put to shame; Marduk is shattered, her images are disgraced, her idols are broken in pieces.’

    Jeremiah 50:2

    • גִּלּוּלֶֽיהָ׃giluleihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: idols its

Ezekiel

thirty-nine uses
  • Your altars will be demolished and your incense altars will be smashed; and I will cast down your slain before your idols.

    Ezekiel 6:4

    • גִּלּוּלֵיכֶֽם׃giluleikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: idols your
  • I will lay the corpses of the Israelites before their idols and scatter your bones around your altars.

    Ezekiel 6:5

    • גִּלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֑םgiluleihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: idols their
  • Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.

    Ezekiel 6:6

    • גִּלּ֣וּלֵיכֶ֔םgiluleikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: idols your
  • Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by their adulterous hearts that turned away from Me, and by their eyes that lusted after idols. So they will loathe themselves for the evil they have done and for all their abominations.

    Ezekiel 6:9

    • גִּלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֑םgiluleihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: idols their
  • Then you will know that I am the LORD, when their slain lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, and under every green tree and leafy oak—the places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.

    Ezekiel 6:13

    • גִּלּ֣וּלֵיהֶ֔םgiluleihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: idols their
    • גִּלּוּלֵיהֶֽם׃giluleihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: idols their
  • So I went in and looked, and engraved all around the wall was every kind of crawling creature and detestable beast, along with all the idols of the house of Israel.

    Ezekiel 8:10

    • גִּלּוּלֵ֖יgiluleinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: idols of
  • “Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces. Should I consult with them in any way?

    Ezekiel 14:3

    • גִלּֽוּלֵיהֶם֙giluleihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: idols their
  • Therefore speak to them and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When any Israelite sets up idols in his heart and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him according to his great idolatry,

    Ezekiel 14:4

    • גִּלּוּלָ֜יוgilulavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: idols his
    • גִּלּוּלָֽיו׃gilulavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: idols his
  • so that I may take hold of the hearts of the people of Israel. For because of their idols, they are all estranged from Me.’

    Ezekiel 14:5

    • בְּגִלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֖םbegiluleihempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: by idols their
  • Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Repent and turn away from your idols; turn your faces away from all your abominations.

    Ezekiel 14:6

    • גִּלּֽוּלֵיכֶ֑םgiluleikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: idols your
  • For when any Israelite or any foreigner dwelling in Israel separates himself from Me, sets up idols in his heart, and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me, I the LORD will answer him Myself.

    Ezekiel 14:7

    • גִּלּוּלָיו֙gilulavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: idols his
  • This is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,

    Ezekiel 16:36

    • גִּלּוּלֵ֣יgiluleinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: idols of
  • He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her period.

    Ezekiel 18:6

    • גִּלּוּלֵ֖יgiluleinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: idols of
  • He oppresses the poor and needy; he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations.

    Ezekiel 18:12

    • הַגִּלּוּלִים֙hagilulimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the idols
  • He does not eat at the mountain or look to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.

    Ezekiel 18:15

    • גִּלּוּלֵ֖יgiluleinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: idols of
  • And I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’

    Ezekiel 20:7

    • וּבְגִלּוּלֵ֥יuvegiluleiconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and by idols of
  • But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt.

    Ezekiel 20:8

    • גִּלּוּלֵ֥יgiluleinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: idols of
  • because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.

    Ezekiel 20:16

    • גִלּוּלֵיהֶ֖םgiluleihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: idols their
  • In the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

    Ezekiel 20:18

    • וּבְגִלּוּלֵיהֶ֖םuvegiluleihemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and by idols their
  • For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.

    Ezekiel 20:24

    • גִּלּוּלֵ֣יgiluleinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: idols of
  • When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your sons in the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be consulted by you!

    Ezekiel 20:31

    • גִּלּֽוּלֵיכֶם֙giluleikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: idols your
  • And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.

    Ezekiel 20:39

    • גִּלּוּלָיו֙gilulavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: idols his
    • וּבְגִלּוּלֵיכֶֽם׃uvegiluleikhemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and by idols your
  • and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O city who brings her own doom by shedding blood within her walls and making idols to defile herself,

    Ezekiel 22:3

    • גִלּוּלִ֛יםgilulimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: idols
  • you are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled by the idols you have made. You have brought your days to a close and have come to the end of your years. Therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.

    Ezekiel 22:4

    • וּבְגִלּוּלַ֤יִךְuvegilulayikhconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: and by idols your
  • She offered sexual favors to all the elite of Assyria. She defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she lusted.

    Ezekiel 23:7

    • גִּלּוּלֵיהֶ֖םgiluleihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: idols their
  • have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.

    Ezekiel 23:30

    • בְּגִלּוּלֵיהֶֽם׃begiluleihempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: by idols their
  • For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.

    Ezekiel 23:37

    • גִּלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֖ןgiluleihennoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: idols their
  • On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, they did this inside My house.

    Ezekiel 23:39

    • לְגִלּ֣וּלֵיהֶ֔םlegiluleihempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to idols their
  • They will repay you for your indecency, and you will bear the consequences of your sins of idolatry. Then you will know that I am the Lord GOD.’”

    Ezekiel 23:49

    • גִלּוּלֵיכֶ֖ןgiluleikhennoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine pluraltagged: idols your
  • This is what the Lord GOD says: I will destroy the idols and put an end to the images in Memphis. There will no longer be a prince in Egypt, and I will instill fear in that land.

    Ezekiel 30:13

    • גִלּוּלִ֜יםgilulimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: idols
  • Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

    Ezekiel 33:25

    • גִּלּוּלֵיכֶ֖םgiluleikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: idols your
  • So I poured out My wrath upon them because of the blood they had shed on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols.

    Ezekiel 36:18

    • וּבְגִלּוּלֵיהֶ֖םuvegiluleihemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and by idols their
  • I will also sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your impurities and all your idols.

    Ezekiel 36:25

    • גִּלּ֥וּלֵיכֶ֖םgiluleikhemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: idols your
  • They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or detestable images, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

    Ezekiel 37:23

    • בְּגִלּֽוּלֵיהֶם֙begiluleihempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: by idols their
  • Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who wandered away from Me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their iniquity.

    Ezekiel 44:10

    • גִּלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֑םgiluleihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: idols their
  • Because they ministered before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I swore with an uplifted hand concerning them that they would bear the consequences of their iniquity, declares the Lord GOD.

    Ezekiel 44:12

    • גִלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֔םgiluleihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: idols their

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