Limitless Word
אֱלִילʼĕlîyl/el-eel'/
HebrewH45720 occurrences (KJV)

good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity; specifically an idol

KJV renders it: idol, no value, thing of nought.

Where it appears(showing the first 18 of 20)

  • Lev 19:4“‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.
  • Lev 26:1“‘You shall make for yourselves no idols, and you shall not raise up an engraved image or a pillar, and you shall not place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it; for I am Yahweh your God.
  • 1 Chr 16:26For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.
  • Job 13:4But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
  • Ps 96:5For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but Yahweh made the heavens.
  • Ps 97:7Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!
  • Isa 2:8Their land also is full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
  • Isa 2:18The idols shall utterly pass away.
  • Isa 2:20In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
  • Isa 10:10As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
  • Isa 10:11shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
  • Isa 19:1The burden of Egypt: “Behold, Yahweh rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it.
  • Isa 19:3The spirit of Egypt will fail within it. I will destroy its counsel. They will seek the idols, the charmers, those who have familiar spirits, and the wizards.
  • Isa 31:7For in that day everyone shall cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold — sin which your own hands have made for you.
  • Jer 14:14Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets prophesy lies in my name. I didn’t send them, neither have I commanded them, neither did I speak to them. They prophesy to you a lying vision, divination, and a thing of nothing, and the deceit of their own heart.
  • Ezek 30:13Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
  • Hab 2:18“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
  • Zech 11:17Woe to the worthless shepherd who leaves the flock! The sword will be on his arm, and on his right eye. His arm will be completely withered, and his right eye will be totally blinded!”

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.