Definition

good for nothing

Etymology

for H457 (אֱלִיל);

Word family

• אֱלִיל ʼĕlîyl

How the KJV renders it

• thing of nought

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.