"an idolater, worshipper of idols, 1 Cor. 5:10, 11; 6:9; 10:7; Eph. 5:5; Rev. 21:8; 22:15*"
Definition and meaning
an idolater, worshipper of idols, 1 Cor. 5:10, 11; 6:9; 10:7; Eph. 5:5; Rev. 21:8; 22:15*
In the original Greek the word is written: εἰδωλολάτρης
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of eidololatres (G1496) across the King James Bible.
Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
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Common questions
Strong's G1496 (eidololatres) is a Greek word that means: an idolater, worshipper of idols, 1 Cor. 5:10, 11; 6:9; 10:7; Eph. 5:5; Rev. 21:8; 22:15* It appears 7 times in the King James Bible.
The word eidololatres (G1496) appears 7 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G1496 is eidololatres, a Greek word defined as: an idolater, worshipper of idols, 1 Cor. 5:10, 11; 6:9; 10:7; Eph. 5:5; Rev. 21:8; 22:15*. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
eidololatres is a Greek word found in the New Testament.