Lexical Summary
eidóleion: Idol temple
Original Word: εἰδωλεῖον
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: eidóleion
Pronunciation: ay-do-LAY-on
Phonetic Spelling: (i-do-li'-on)
KJV: idol's temple
NASB: idol's temple
Word Origin: [neuter of a presumed derivative of G1497 (εἴδωλον - idols)]
1. an image-temple, idol's temple
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
idol's temple.
Neuter of a presumed derivative of eidolon; an image-fane -- idol's temple.
see GREEK eidolon
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
eidólonDefinitionan idol's temple
NASB Translationidol's temple (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1493: εἰδωλεῖονεἰδωλεῖον (
εἰδώλιον T WH; see Iota),
ἐιδωλειου,
τό (
εἴδωλον, which see; cf. '
Ἀσκληπειον,
Ἀπολλωνειον,
ἡρακλειον etc. (
Winers Grammar, 95 (90))),
an idol's temple, temple consecrated to idols:
1 Corinthians 8:10 (1 Macc. 1:47 1 Macc. 10:83; 1 Esdr. 2:9; not found in secular authors; for in the fragment from
Sophocles (152 Dindorf) in
Plutarch, de amico et adul. c. 36
ἑδωλια has of late been restored).