Lexical Summary eidōlolatreia: image worship Original Word: εἰδωλολατρείαTransliteration: eidōlolatreia Phonetic Spelling: (i-do-lol-at-ri'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: image worship Meaning: image worship Strong's Concordance idolatry. From eidolon and latreia; image-worship (literally or figuratively) -- idolatry. see GREEK eidolon see GREEK latreia Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1495: εἰδωλολατρείαεἰδωλολατρεία εἰδωλολατρία WH; see Iota], εἰδωλολατρείας, ἡ (εἴδωλον, which see, and λατρεία) (Tertullian, others haveidololatria), the worship of false gods, idolatry: Galatians 5:20; used of the formal sacrificial feasts held in honor of false gods, 1 Corinthians 10:14; of avarice, as a worship of Mammon (which see), Colossians 3:5 (Lightfoot at the passage); in plural, the vices springing from idolatry and peculiar to it, 1 Peter 4:3. (Ecclesiastical writings (cf. Winer's Grammar, 26).) |
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