H457. elil
אֱלִיל noun masculine (etymology uncertain: most probably akin to Syriac weak, feeble, poor; perhaps also in usage [compare b] felt to suggest אַל not; compare Che on [Isa 2:8]) insufficiency, worthlessness.
a. [Zech 11:17] הָאֱלִיל רֹעִי the shepherd of worthlessness = the worthless shepherd, [Job 13:4] אֱלִל רֹפְאֵי worthless physicians (|| טֹפְלֵישֶֿׁקֶר), [Jer 14:14] Qr concrete a thing nought (uttered by prophets), but here אֱלִיל קֶסֶם a worthless divin. (|| לִבָּם תַּרְמִית שֶׁקֶר, חֲזוֺן) should perhaps be read (compare Gf).
b. especially plural אֱלִילִים concrete worthless gods, idols (compare הֲבָלִים) (possibly originally an independent word = gods, compare Sabean אלאלת, & see NöSBAk 1882, p. 1191, but even if so, associated by the prophets with idea of worthlessness, & used by them in iron. contrast with אֱלֹהִים אֵלִים,) [Lev 19:4] (not to be made) [26:1] (both H), [Isa 2:8], [18], [20] (twice in verse) (of silver & gold), [10:10] הָאֱלִיל מַמְלְכוֺת (collective) kingdoms of idolatrous worthlessness, [10:11]; [19:1], [3](of Egypt) [31:7] (twice in verse); [Ezek 30:13] (Egypt), [Hab 2:18] ׳א אִלְּמִים dumb idols, [Psa 96:5] ( = [1Chr 16:26]) all the gods of the nations are ׳א vain, worthless gods 1Chron 97:7.
II. אלל (√ assumed for following words).
אֱלִיל
原文音譯：lylia/ el-eel’
詞類次數：名詞（21）
原文字根：屬於；相當於G1497（εἴδωλον）
字義溯源：偶像，無益的，無用的，虛無的，沒有價值的；源自（H408（אַל）=不，無），而H408（אַל）與（H3808（הֲלֹא / לֹא / לֹה）*=不）相似
出現次數：總共（19）；利（1）；代上（1）；伯（1）；詩（2）；賽（11）；結（1）；哈（1）；亞（1）
譯字彙編：
1）偶像（9）[賽2:8]；[賽2:20]；[賽2:20]；[賽10:11]；[賽10:11]；[賽31:7]；[賽31:7]；[結30:13]；[哈2:18]；
2）那些偶像（2）[賽2:18]；[賽19:3]；
3）（那些）偶像（1）[賽10:10]；
4）的偶像（1）[賽19:1]；
5）那無用的（1）[亞11:17]；
6）虛無的神（1）[詩97:7]；
7）都屬虛無的神（1）[代上16:26]；
8）無用的（1）[伯13:4]；
9）都是偶像（1）[詩96:5]；
10）（那些）虛無的神（1）[利19:4]