Word Summary
eidōlolatrēs: an image worshiper
Original Word: εἰδωλολάτρηςTransliteration: eidōlolatrēs
Phonetic Spelling: (i-do-lol-at'-race)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: an image worshiper
Meaning: an image worshiper
Strong's Concordance
idolater.
From eidolon and the base of latreuo; an image- (servant or) worshipper (literally or figuratively) -- idolater.
see GREEK eidolon
see GREEK latreuo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1496: εἰδωλολάτρηςεἰδωλολάτρης ἐιδωλολατρου,
ὁ (
εἴδωλον, and
λάτρις i. e. a hireling, servant, slave),
a worshipper of false gods, an idolater, (
Tertullianidololatres):
1 Corinthians 5:10;
Revelation 21:8;
Revelation 22:15; anyone, even a Christian, participant in any way in the worship of heathen,
1 Corinthians 5:11;
1 Corinthians 6:9; especially one who attends their sacrificial feasts and eats of the remains of the offered victims,
1 Corinthians 10:7; a covetous man, as a worshipper of Mammon,
Ephesians 5:5; cf. Meyer at the passage (Ecclesiastical writings (cf.
Winer's Grammar, 100 (94f)).)