Strong's Number 1497

The Linked Word Project
Transliteration:
eidolon {i'-do-lon}
Word Origin:
from 1491; an image (i.e. for worship)
TDNT:
2:375,202
Part of Speech:
noun neuter
Usage in the KJV:
idol 11

Total: 11
Definition:
  1. an image, likeness
    1. i.e. whatever represents the form of an object, either real or imaginary
    2. used of the shades of the departed, apparitions, spectres, phantoms of the mind, etc.
  2. the image of an heathen god
  3. a false god
TDNT - Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
TWOT - Theological Word Book of the Old Testament