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Moses Indignant at the Golden Calf, painting by William Blake, 1799–1800. Idolatry is the worship of an idol as though it were a deity. [1] [2] [3] In Abrahamic religions (namely Judaism, Samaritanism, Christianity, the Baháʼí Faith, and Islam) idolatry connotes the worship of something or someone other than the Abrahamic God as if it were God.
Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible. Leiden / Boston / Köln: Brill. p. 919. ISBN 0802824919. OCLC 1005995268. Klein, Reuven Chaim (2018). God versus Gods: Judasim in the Age of Idolatry. Mosaica Press. ISBN 978-1946351463. OL 27322748M. On the Syrian Goddess by Lucian of Samosata.
2) Idolatry. "The weak people were most ungrateful and faithless to God. The Lord had done such great things for them! Only forty days before, full of holy fear, they had heard His voice and had repeatedly promised obedience to His Commandments; and now they transgressed the first and most important of them, and forsook God to worship idols.
Moloch is rarely mentioned in the Bible, is not mentioned at all outside of it, and connections to other deities with similar names are uncertain. [4] Moreover, it is possible that some of the supposed deities named Mlk are epithets for another god, given that mlk can also mean "king". [ 30 ]
According to rabbinic literature Terah was a wicked (Numbers Rabbah 19:1; 19:33), idolatrous priest (Midrash HaGadol on Genesis 11:28) who manufactured idols (Eliyahu Rabbah 6, and Eliyahu Zuta 25). Abram, in opposition to his father's idol shop, smashed his father's idols and chased customers away.
Names of God, names of deities of monotheistic religions This page was last edited on 14 November 2024, at 17:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The name Bealiah ("The Lord is Jah"; "Yahweh is Baʿal") [12] combined the two. [ 65 ] [ 66 ] However John Day states that as far as the names Eshba’al, Meriba’al, and Beeliada (that is Baaliada), are concerned it is not certain whether they simply allude to the Canaanite god Ba’al, or are intended to equate Yahweh with Ba’al, or have ...
The team discovered that within the King James Version Bible, a total of 3,418 distinct names were identified. Among these, 1,940 names pertain to individuals, 1,072 names refer to places, 317 names denote collective entities or nations, and 66 names are allocated to miscellaneous items such as months, rivers, or pagan deities.