ἱεροσυλέω
hierosyléō · G2416 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to rob temples
To take by force or stealth objects from a temple
ExamplesRomans 2:22 You who say that one is not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who loathe idols, do you rob temples?
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to commit sacrilege, to desecrate
To commit sacrilege by doing harm or damage to sacred objects in temples
ExamplesRomans 2:22 You who say that one is not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who loathe idols, do you rob temples?
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- מָעַל mâʻal · H4603 · to commit a violation, to be unfaithful
- The Hebrew verb מָעַל denotes treacherous or unfaithful action, particularly in contexts of violating sacred obligations or misappropriating holy objects (cf. the trespass of Achan in Joshua 7). This overlaps semantically with ἱεροσυλέω, as both involve sacrilege—the violation or profaning of what is consecrated.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To commit sacrilege, to desecrate53.104
- In Romans 2:22, Paul asks, “You who loathe idols, do you rob temples?” using this verb for the act of desecrating what is sacred.
- To rob temples57.241
- In the same verse, Romans 2:22, the same act is one of plundering a temple's own contents.
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἱεροσύλω; (ἱερόσυλος, which see); to commit sacrilege, to rob a temple: Rom 2:22, where…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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