Words the Bible translates as idols
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- hevelהֶבֶלidols and false gods, dismissed as worthless nothings: powerless objects of worship that promise much and deliver nothing.
+1 more meaning
- a breath or puff of vapor, and so anything that is fleeting, insubstantial, or comes to nothing: too thin to grasp, gone before you can hold it.
- gillulגִּלּוּלidols: the lifeless man-made objects that false worship treats as gods, named with open contempt
- teraphimתְּרָפִיםhousehold gods: figured images kept for private worship and consulted for guidance
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