Strong's #1497: eidolon (pronounced i'-do-lon)

from 1491; an image (i.e. for worship); by implication, a heathen god, or (plural) the worship of such:--idol.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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eidōlon

1) an image, likeness

1a) i.e. whatever represents the form of an object, either real or imaginary

1b) 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

Part of Speech: noun neuter

Relation: from G1491; an image (i.e. for worship)

Citing in TDNT: 2:375, 202

Usage:

This word is used 11 times:

 

Acts 7:41: "offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the"
Acts 15:20: "that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled,"
Romans 2:22: "commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?"
1 Corinthians 8:4: "of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and"
1 Corinthians 8:7: "some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as"
1 Corinthians 10:19: "say I then? that the idol is any thing, or"
1 Corinthians 12:2: "carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led."
2 Corinthians 6:16: "hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple"
1 Thessalonians 1:9: "to God from idols to serve the living and true"
1 John 5:21: "keep yourselves from idols. Amen."
Revelation 9:20: "they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver,"