אֱלִיל
ʾĕlîl
insufficiency
Strong's H457NounHebrewTWOT 99a

אֱלִיל (ʾĕlîl) is a Hebrew noun meaning insufficiency. It appears 20 times in 9 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H457).

Also rendered

Same Hebrew root (TWOT 99a)

Range of meaning (TWOT 99a)insufficiency, worthlessness; worthless gods, idols; good for nothing; nothing, vain, vanity; thing of nought, no value
Full entry: Brown-Driver-Briggs and Strong's

אֱלוּל

אֱלִיל noun, masculine: insufficiency, worthlessness

Strong's H434 אֱלוּל: good for nothing
KJV:thing of nought.

Strong's H457 אֱלִיל: good for nothing, by analogy vain or vanity; specifically an idol
KJV:idol, no value, thing of nought.

Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.

Root family 99: אלל ʾll — to be weak, insufficient, to fail

See it in Scripture

Leviticus 19:41 Chronicles 16:26Job 13:4

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