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Strong's H457

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H457

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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance dictionaries from openscriptures/strongs. CC BY-SA 4.0 / Public Domain. Derived from James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890/1894.

אֱלִילʼĕlîylel-eel'

Short Definition: good for nothing
Strong’s Definition: good for nothing, by anal. vain or vanity; specifically an idol
KJV Definition: idol, no value, thing of nought.

Hebrew occurrences:58

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Brown–Driver–Briggs: אֱלִיל
STEP Hebrew Lexicon: אֱלִיל

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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance dictionaries from openscriptures/strongs. CC BY-SA 4.0 / Public Domain. Derived from James Strong, S.T.D., LL.D., 1890/1894.