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G2712 κατείδωλος (kateídōlos)
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κατείδωλος, ον Adj full of images of idols

Strong's Definition

from 2596 (intensively) and 1497; utterly idolatrous

KJV Usage: wholly given to idolatry

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

adjc. | -ον | εἶδος

6.98 · Artifacts · Images and Idols

full of idols (derivative of εἴδωλον[a] ‘idol,’ 6.97) pertaining to numerous idols, objects (not necessarily three-dimensional) formed to resemble a person, god, animal, etc. In place of the traditional rendering ‘how full of idols their city was,’ one may have ‘how many idols there were in their city’ or ‘how many idols the people worshiped there in their city.’

ACT 17:16

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

κατείδωλος, -ov, (κατά and εἴδωλον ; after the analogy of κατάμπελος, κατάγομος, κατάχρυσος, κατάδενδρος, etc., [see κατά, III. 8, and cf. Herm. ad Vig. p. 638]), full of idols: Acts xvii. 16. (Not found in prof. auth. [ef. W. § 34. 3]].)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

κατείδωλος kateidōlos 1x

rife with idols, sunk in idolatry, grossly idolatrous, Acts 17:16*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

*† κατείδωλος, -ον

(< εἴδωλον),

full of idols: Ac 17:16.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

κατείδωλος, found only in Ac 171%, is regularly formed on the analogy of such words as καταβελής, κατάγελος etc., with the meaning stmulacris referta [urbs] (cf. Vigerus de Lazotismis (ed. Hermann) p. 638): cf. Liv. xlv. 27 Athenas . . habentes - stmulacra deorum hominumque omni genere et materiae et artium insignia.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

κατείδωλος (kateidōlos) — idolatrous. κατείδωλος, ον, full of idols, given to idolatry, [NT]

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