גִּלּוּלgillûwl
idols (Jeremiah 50:27; Ezekiel 6:4; Ezekiel 22:8; Ezekiel 30:13; 1 Kings 15:12)
Pronunciation: ghil-lool' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1544
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 48 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 26:30 I will destroy your pagan shrines and knock down your places of worship. I will leave your lifeless corpses piled on top of your lifeless idols, and I will despise you.
- Deuteronomy 29:17 You have seen their detestable practices and their idols made of wood, stone, silver, and gold.
- 1 Kings 15:12 He banished the male and female shrine prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the idols his ancestors had made.
- 1 Kings 21:26 His worst outrage was worshiping idols just as the Amorites had done—the people whom the Lord had driven out from the land ahead of the Israelites.)
- 2 Kings 17:12 Yes, they worshiped idols, despite the Lord’s specific and repeated warnings.
- 2 Kings 21:11 “King Manasseh of Judah has done many detestable things. He is even more wicked than the Amorites, who lived in this land before Israel. He has caused the people of Judah to sin with his idols.
See every passage
- Leviticus 26:30
- Deuteronomy 29:17
- 1 Kings 15:12, 21:26
- 2 Kings 17:12, 21:11, 21:21, 23:24
- Jeremiah 50:2
- Ezekiel 6:4, 6:5, 6:6, 6:9, 6:13, 8:10, 14:3, 14:4, 14:5, 14:6, 14:7, 16:36, 18:6, 18:12, 18:15, 20:7, 20:8, 20:16, 20:18, 20:24, 20:31, 20:39, 22:3, 22:4, 23:7, 23:30, 23:37, 23:39, 23:49, 30:13, 33:25, 36:18, 36:25, 37:23, 44:10, 44:12
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).