ἱερόσυλος
hierósylos · G2417 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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temple robber
One who robs temples
ExamplesActs 19:37 “For you have brought these men here who are neither temple robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess.
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desecrator, one who commits sacrilege
One who commits sacrilege by damaging sacred objects in temples
ExamplesActs 19:37 “For you have brought these men here who are neither temple robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀνήρman, husband 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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Contrasting words 2 words
- εὐσεβής eusebḗs · G2152 · devout, pious, religious
- One who is reverent toward sacred things stands as the lexical opposite of one who desecrates/robs temples; εὐσεβής denotes proper religious devotion versus sacrilegious violation
- ὅσιος hósios · G3741 · holy, pure, divine
- Denotes one who is holy/devout in religious observance, the opposite character of a temple-desecrator; ὅσιος emphasizes sacred purity versus sacrilegious defilement
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Desecrator, one who commits sacrilege53.105
- In Acts 19:37, of Paul's companions it is written, “these men... are neither temple robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess,” using this word for one who desecrates a sacred place.
- Temple robber57.242
- In the same verse, Acts 19:37, the same word names one who plunders a temple.
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἱερόσυλον (from ἱερόν and συλάω), guilty of sacrilege: Acts 19:37 (A. V. robbers of…
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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