Gillûwl — H1544

Definition

masculine plural noun

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

1. idols

Usually translated as

idol

Origin

or (shortened) gillul; from H1556

• Derived from Gâlal (H1556)

Greek equivalents

• bdélygma (G946)
• dianóēma (G1270)
• diánoia (G1271)
• eídōlon (G1497)

Occurrences

Gillûwl occurs 48 times in 45 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Leviticus (1), Deuteronomy (1), 1 Kings (2), 2 Kings (4), Jeremiah (1), Ezekiel (36)

• Leviticus 26:30 — And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols (גִּלּוּלֵיכֶ֑ם), and my soul shall abhor you.
• Deuteronomy 29:17 — And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols (גִּלֻּלֵיהֶ֑ם), wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
• 1 Kings 15:12 — And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols (הַגִּלֻּלִ֔ים) that his fathers had made.
• 1 Kings 21:26 — And he did very abominably in following idols (הַגִּלֻּלִ֑ים), according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
• 2 Kings 17:12 — For they served idols (הַגִּלֻּלִ֑ים), whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.
• 2 Kings 21:11 — Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols (בְּגִלּוּלָֽיו):
• 2 Kings 21:21 — And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols (הַגִּלֻּלִים֙) that his father served, and worshipped them:
• 2 Kings 23:24 — Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols (הַגִּלֻּלִ֜ים), and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the LORD.
• Jeremiah 50:2 — Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images (גִּלּוּלֶֽיהָ) are broken in pieces.
• Ezekiel 6:4 — And your altars shall be desolate, and your images shall be broken: and I will cast down your slain men before your idols (גִּלּוּלֵיכֶֽם).
• Ezekiel 6:5 — And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel before their idols (גִּלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֑ם); and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.
• Ezekiel 6:6 — In all your dwellingplaces the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols (גִּלּ֣וּלֵיכֶ֔ם) may be broken and cease, and your images may be cut down, and your works may be abolished.
• Ezekiel 6:9 — And they that escape of you shall remember me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols (גִּלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֑ם): and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
• Ezekiel 6:13 — Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols (גִּלּ֣וּלֵיהֶ֔ם) round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.
• Ezekiel 6:13 — Then shall ye know that I am the LORD, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols (גִּלּוּלֵיהֶֽם).
• Ezekiel 8:10 — So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols (גִּלּוּלֵ֖י) of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
• Ezekiel 14:3 — Son of man, these men have set up their idols (גִלּֽוּלֵיהֶם֙) in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them?
• Ezekiel 14:4 — Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols (גִּלּוּלָ֜יו) in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;
• Ezekiel 14:4 — Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols (גִּלּוּלָֽיו);
• Ezekiel 14:5 — That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols (בְּגִלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֖ם).
• Ezekiel 14:6 — Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols (גִּלּֽוּלֵיכֶ֑ם); and turn away your faces from all your abominations.
• Ezekiel 14:7 — For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up his idols (גִּלּוּלָיו֙) in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:
• Ezekiel 16:36 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols (גִּלּוּלֵ֣י) of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;
• Ezekiel 18:6 — And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols (גִּלּוּלֵ֖י) of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour’s wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
• Ezekiel 18:12 — Hath oppressed the poor and needy, hath spoiled by violence, hath not restored the pledge, and hath lifted up his eyes to the idols (הַגִּלּוּלִים֙), hath committed abomination,
• Ezekiel 18:15 — That hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols (גִּלּוּלֵ֖י) of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbour’s wife,
• Ezekiel 20:7 — Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols (וּבְגִלּוּלֵ֥י) of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
• Ezekiel 20:8 — But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols (גִּלּוּלֵ֥י) of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.
• Ezekiel 20:16 — Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols (גִלּוּלֵיהֶ֖ם).
• Ezekiel 20:18 — But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols (וּבְגִלּוּלֵיהֶ֖ם):
• Ezekiel 20:24 — Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols (גִּלּוּלֵ֣י).
• Ezekiel 20:31 — For when ye offer your gifts, when ye make your sons to pass through the fire, ye pollute yourselves with all your idols (גִּלּֽוּלֵיכֶם֙), even unto this day: and shall I be enquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will not be enquired of by you.
• Ezekiel 20:39 — As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols (גִּלּוּלָיו֙), and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.
• Ezekiel 20:39 — As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols (וּבְגִלּוּלֵיכֶֽם).
• Ezekiel 22:3 — Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols (גִלּוּלִ֛ים) against herself to defile herself.
• Ezekiel 22:4 — Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols (וּבְגִלּוּלַ֤יִךְ) which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.
• Ezekiel 23:7 — Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols (גִּלּוּלֵיהֶ֖ם) she defiled herself.
• Ezekiel 23:30 — I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols (בְּגִלּוּלֵיהֶֽם).
• Ezekiel 23:37 — That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols (גִּלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֖ן) have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
• Ezekiel 23:39 — For when they had slain their children to their idols (לְגִלּ֣וּלֵיהֶ֔ם), then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.
• Ezekiel 23:49 — And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you, and ye shall bear the sins of your idols (גִלּוּלֵיכֶ֖ן): and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
• Ezekiel 30:13 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols (גִלּוּלִ֜ים), and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
• Ezekiel 33:25 — Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols (גִּלּוּלֵיכֶ֖ם), and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
• Ezekiel 36:18 — Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols (וּבְגִלּוּלֵיהֶ֖ם) wherewith they had polluted it:
• Ezekiel 36:25 — Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols (גִּלּ֥וּלֵיכֶ֖ם), will I cleanse you.
• Ezekiel 37:23 — Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols (בְּגִלּֽוּלֵיהֶם֙), nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
• Ezekiel 44:10 — And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols (גִּלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֑ם); they shall even bear their iniquity.
• Ezekiel 44:12 — Because they ministered unto them before their idols (גִלּֽוּלֵיהֶ֔ם), and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.