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εἰδωλόθυτον
eidōlóthyton · Greek · Strong's G1494 · 10 occurrences
The KJV renders 14 different Hebrew and Greek words as “meat”
What it means
an image-sacrifice, i.e. part of an idolatrous offering
neuter of a compound of G1497 (εἴδωλον) and a presumed derivative of G2380 (θύω);
How the KJV renders it
meat, thing that is offered in sacrifice, sacrificed to idols
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“meat”
Answers that weigh this word
- Is the seventh-day Sabbath binding on Gentiles?
- Are any foods forbidden to Christians today?
- Is tithing required for Christians?
- Are the clean and unclean food laws of Leviticus 11 binding on Christians?
- Does the Bible forbid eating pork?
- Does Peter's vision in Acts 10 abolish the food laws?
Where it appears
10 occurrences in the Greek text.
1 Corinthians 8:1 · A-GPN
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 8:4 · A-GPN
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 · A-NSN
However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of an idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
1 Corinthians 8:10 · A-APN
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 · A-NSN
What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
1 Corinthians 10:28 · A-NSN
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, with all its fullness.”
Acts 15:29 A-GPNActs 21:25 A-ASNRevelation 2:14 A-APNRevelation 2:20 A-APN
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