Word Summary
eidōlothytos: sacrificed to idols
Original Word: εἰδωλόθυτοςTransliteration: eidōlothytos
Phonetic Spelling: (i-do-loth'-oo-ton)
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: sacrificed to idols
Meaning: sacrificed to idols
Strong's Concordance
meat offered in sacrifice unto idols.
Neuter of a compound of eidolon and a presumed derivative of thuo; an image-sacrifice, i.e. Part of an idolatrous offering -- (meat, thing that is) offered (in sacrifice, sacrificed) to (unto) idols.
see GREEK eidolon
see GREEK thuo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1494: εἰδωλόθυτοςεἰδωλόθυτος,
εἰδωλόθυτον (
εἴδωλον and
θύω), a Biblical and ecclesiastical word (
Winers Grammar, 26; 100 (94)),
sacrificed to idols;
τό εἰδωλόθυτον and
τά εἰδωλόθυτα denote the flesh left over from the heathen sacrifices; it was either eaten at feasts, or sold (by the poor and the miserly) in the market:
Acts 15:29;
Acts 21:25;
1 Corinthians 8:1, 4, 7, 10;
1 Corinthians 10:19, 28 (here
L text
T Tr WH read
ἱερόθυτόν, which see);
Revelation 2:14, 20. (Cf.
Lightfoot on Galatians, p. 308f.)