# אֱלִיל (elil)

Israeli respelling: e-lil. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H457. 18 Old Testament occurrences.

good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity; specifically an idol

King James renderings: idol, no value, thing of nought.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/elil-h457

## Occurrences

- [Leviticus 19:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/19/4) — Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
- [Leviticus 26:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/1) — Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land,…
- [1 Chronicles 16:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/16/26) — For all the gods of the people are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
- [Job 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/13/4) — But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
- [Psalms 96:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/96/5) — For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.
- [Psalms 97:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/97/7) — Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
- [Isaiah 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/2/8) — Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
- [Isaiah 2:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/2/18) — And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
- [Isaiah 2:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/2/20) — In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and…
- [Isaiah 10:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/10) — As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
- [Isaiah 10:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/11) — Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
- [Isaiah 19:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/19/1) — The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his pr…
- [Isaiah 19:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/19/3) — And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst thereof; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek to the idols, and to t…
- [Isaiah 31:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/31/7) — For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.
- [Jeremiah 14:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/14/14) — Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them:…
- [Ezekiel 30:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/30/13) — Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a pr…
- [Habakkuk 2:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/habakkuk/2/18) — What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work…
- [Zechariah 11:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/17) — Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up,…