Strong's #457: 'eliyl (pronounced el-eel')
apparently from 408; good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity; specifically an idol:--idol, no value, thing of nought.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'ĕlı̂yl
1) of nought, good for nothing, worthless
1a) of physicians, a shepherd, a divination
1b) of false gods
Part of Speech: adjective masculine
Relation: apparently from H408
Usage:
This word is used 19 times:
Leviticus 19:4: "Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods:"
Leviticus 26:1: "Ye shall make you no idols neither rear you up a standing image, neither"
1 Chronicles 16:26: "all the gods are idols: but the LORD made the heavens."
Job 13:4: "ye are all physicians of no value."
Psalms 96:5: "all the gods are idols: but the LORD made the heavens."
Psalms 97:7: "they that serve that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods."
Isaiah 2:8: "Their land also is full of idols; the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers"
Isaiah 2:18: " And the idols he shall utterly abolish."
Isaiah 2:20: "a man his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which"
Isaiah 2:20: "his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship,"
Isaiah 10:10: "my hand hath found of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;"
Isaiah 10:11: "as I have done and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?"
Isaiah 19:1: "cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence,"
Isaiah 19:3: "the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits,"
Isaiah 31:7: "day shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which"
Isaiah 31:7: "shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made"
Ezekiel 30:13: "I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be"
Habakkuk 2:18: "therein, to make dumb idols?"
Zechariah 11:17: "Woe to the idol shepherd the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm,"
