Lexical 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.) |
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