Lexicon / H0457
אֱלִיל
e.lil
  • idol
  • insufficiency
  • worthlessness

STEPBible TBESH

Glosses: idol

1) of nought, good for nothing, worthless

1a) of physicians, a shepherd, a divination

1b) of false gods

BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)

Glosses: insufficiency; worthlessness

Root √אלל: אלל אֱלִיל אַל to be weak insufficient to fail Arabic (or, assumed in Thes as root of(as also of): cf. Ar.in a thing).

אֱלִיל n.m insufficiency worthlessness worthlessness the shepherd of= the worthless shepherd worthless gods idols concr.