εἰδωλόθυτον
idol meat
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter 3 times (30%)
- Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Neuter 3 times (30%)
- Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter 3 times (30%)
- Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter 1 time (10%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 10 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G1494 appears — 10 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts 2 verses
- Acts 15:29 εἰδωλοθύτων adj gen pl neut that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."
- Acts 21:25 εἰδωλόθυτον adj acc sg neut But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality."
1 Corinthians 6 verses
- 1 Corinthians 8:1 εἰδωλοθύτων adj gen pl neut Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
- 1 Corinthians 8:4 εἰδωλοθύτων adj gen pl neut Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
- 1 Corinthians 8:7 εἰδωλόθυτον adj nom sg neut However, that knowledge isn't in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
- 1 Corinthians 8:10 εἰδωλόθυτα adj acc pl neut For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
- 1 Corinthians 10:19 εἰδωλόθυτόν adj nom sg neut What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
- 1 Corinthians 10:28 ἱερόθυτόν adj nom sg neut But if anyone says to you, "This was offered to idols," don't eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For "the earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness."
Revelation 2 verses
- Revelation 2:14 εἰδωλόθυτα adj acc pl neut But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
- Revelation 2:20 εἰδωλόθυτα adj acc pl neut But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, ειδωλοθυτον (eidōlóthyton) means “idol meat.” Its uses cluster heavily in 1 Corinthians (60% of all occurrences). With 10 verses in 3 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Scripture first uses it in Acts 15:29. Sharing its root, it stands alongside ειδωλον, ειδωλειον and ειδωλολατρεια. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1494 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,056
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,056 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Corinthians 6 verses 60%
- Acts 2 verses 20%
- Revelation 2 verses 20%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 6 verses · 60%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 20%
- Johannine 2 verses · 20%
- Revelation 2 verses · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Things sacrificed unto idols 2×
- American Standard Version: Things sacrificed to idols 5×
- Berean Standard Bible: Food sacrificed to idols 4×, Sacrificed to idols 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sacrificed to idols 4×, Idol offerings 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1494 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1494 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1494 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1494 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- sacrificed to idols, the flesh left over from the heathen sacrifices
Word origin
Derived from ειδωλον (eídōlon) (G1497) — idol.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G1494 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| εἰδωλοθύτων eidōlothýtōn | Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Acts 15:29 | 3 |
| εἰδωλόθυτα eidōlóthyta | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 8:10 | 3 |
| εἰδωλόθυτον eidōlóthyton | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Acts 21:25 | 2 |
| εἰδωλόθυτόν eidōlóthytón | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 10:19 | 1 |
| ἱερόθυτόν hieróthytón | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | 1 Corinthians 10:28 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1494, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- ειδωλειον eidōleîon G1493 idol temple
- ειδωλολατρεια eidōlolatreía G1495 idolatry
- ειδωλολατρης eidōlolátrēs G1496 idolater
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
