Eidōlolátrēs — G1496

Definition

masculine noun

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

1. anyone, even a Christian, participant in any way in the worship of heathen
2. especially one who attends their sacrificial feasts and eats of the remains of the offered victims
3. a covetous man, as a worshipper of Mammon

Usually translated as

idolater

Origin

from G1497 and the base of G3000

• eídōlon (G1497)
• latreúō (G3000)

Occurrences

Eidōlolátrēs occurs 7 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Corinthians (4), Ephesians (1), Revelation (2)

• 1 Corinthians 5:10 — Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters (εἰδωλολάτραις); for then must ye needs go out of the world.
• 1 Corinthians 5:11 — But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater (εἰδωλολάτρης), or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
• 1 Corinthians 6:9 — Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters (εἰδωλολάτραι), nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
• 1 Corinthians 10:7 — Neither be ye idolaters (εἰδωλολάτραι), as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
• Ephesians 5:5 — For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater (εἰδωλολάτρης), hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
• Revelation 21:8 — But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters (εἰδωλολάτραις), and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
• Revelation 22:15 — For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters (εἰδωλολάτραι), and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.