εἰδωλόθυτον
eidōlóthyton · G1494 · Greek · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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sacrificial meat, meat of animals sacrificed to an idol
The meat of animals which have been sacrificed to idols
ExamplesActs 15:29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from acts of sexual immorality; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.”
Acts 21:25 “But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we sent a letter, having decided that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.”
1 Corinthians 8:1 Now concerning food sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes one conceited, but love edifies people.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
6 occurrences in 4 groups
- ἐσθίωto eat 2
- φάγωto eat 2
- φυλάσσωto keep, to guard 1
- ἀπέχωto receive in full, to be far, to abstain 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τὶςsomeone 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- οὗτοςthis 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- περίconcerning, about, for 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- βρῶσιςeating, food 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Sacrificial meat, meat of animals sacrificed to an idol5.15
- In 1 Corinthians 8:1 and 8:4, Paul addresses food sacrificed to idols, this noun naming meat that had been offered as part of a pagan sacrificial ritual before being sold or eaten, as also in 1 Corinthians 8:7's mention of eating food as if sacrificed to an idol.
- What has been sacrificed, having been sacrificed to a deity53.21
- In Acts 15:29 and 21:25, the Jerusalem council's letter instructs Gentile believers to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, this closely related sense emphasizing the religious act of sacrifice performed toward a deity rather than the meat itself as a foodstuff.
Word family 25 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon εἰδωλόθυτον (εἴδωλον and θύω), a Biblical and ecclesiastical word (Winers Grammar, 26;…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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