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# גִּלּוּלִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1544

**idols** — used 48 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

idols [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1544/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גִּלּוּל: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1544/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Je 50:27 only pl. idols (= logs, blocks, shapeless things Ges BaudRel. i. 95; Ew doll-images \> dungy things Sm Ez 6:4 SS after Rabb.) Vid. BaudZMG, 1904, 395 ff. (cps. Biblical Aramaic גְּלָל (אֶבֶן), Palm. גללאTariff i. 9 = στήλη λιθίνη; and concludes that it was orig. a designation of the primitive stone menhir or מַצֵּבָה) גִּלּוּלִים Ez 22:3 + 3 times + Ez 30:13 (del B Co); גִּלֻּלִים 1 K 15:12 + 2 times; cstr. גִּלּוּלֵי Ez 8:10 + 6 times; גִּלּוּלַיִךְ Ez 22:4; גִּלּוּלָיו 2 K 21:11 + 4 times; גִּלּוּלֶיהָ Je 50:2; ֵיכֶםLv 26:30 + 7 times; ֵיכֶןEz 23:49; ֵיהֶםEz 6:9 + 14 times + Ez 6:5 (del Biblical Aramaic al Co); ֵיהֶןEz 23:37;—idols (39 times Ez);—1 K 15:12 2 K 17:12; 21:21 Ez 6:5 (del Co) v 9 6:13(×2); 14:4, 5; 18:6, 15; 20:16, 24, 39; 23:37, 39, 49; 33:25; 44:10, 12; ‖ שִׁקּוּצִים Dt 29:16 2 K 23:24 (‖ also תְּרָפִים), Ez 20:7, 18 (both c. vb. טמא) v 8 37:23, cf. also 8:10 (שֶׁקֶץ, but שִׁקּוּצִים appar. 𝔊 𝔖 𝔗 & so Co); ‖ תּוֹעֵבָה Ez 14:6 2 K 21:11, cf. Ez 18:12; 16:36 (גִּלּוּלֵי תוֹעֲבוֹתַיִךְ), & 1 K 21:26 (where vb. תָּעַב); ‖ טֻמְאוֹת Ez 36:25; ‖ מִכְשׁוֹל עֲוֹנוֹ Ez 14:3, 4, 7; ‖ עֲצַבִּים Je 50:2; ‖ אֱלִילִים Ez 30:13 (Co אילים; cf. also supr.); ‖ חַמָּן Ez 6:4, 6 Lv 26:30 (cf. infr.); ‖ תְּרָפִים 2 K 23:24 (supr.); in phr. טִמֵּא בְּגִלּ׳ etc. Ez 20:7, 18, 31; 22:3, 4; 23:7, 30; 36:18 (del. Co); תְּחַלְּלוּ בְגִלּ׳ Ez 20:39;—note especially the expression וְנָתַתִּי פִּגְרֵיכֶם עַל־פִּגְרֵי גִלּוּלֵיכֶם Lv 26:30 and I will lay your carcases upon the carcases of your idols.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 45 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: idols (38); the idols (7); your idols (2).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 23:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.23.30/#tree)

עָשֹׂ֥ה אֵ֖לֶּה לָ֑ךְ בִּזְנוֹתֵךְ֙ אַחֲרֵ֣י גוֹיִ֔ם עַ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־נִטְמֵ֖את בְּגִלּוּלֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* they.have.done these.\[things\] to you because you acted.as.a.prostitute after nations on that you.made.yourself.unclean by idols their

*JPS 1917:* These things shall be done unto thee, for that thou hast gone astray after the nations, and because thou art polluted with their idols.

[2 Kings 17:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.12/#tree)

וַיַּֽעַבְד֖וּ הַגִּלֻּלִ֑ים אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ לָהֶ֔ם לֹ֥א תַעֲשׂ֖וּ אֶת־הַדָּבָ֥ר הַזֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.served the idols which he.had.said Yahweh to them not you.must.do (et) the thing (the) this

*JPS 1917:* and they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them: 'Ye shall not do this thing';

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1544/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).