ἁγιωσύνη
hagiōsýnē · G42 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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holiness, divine quality
The quality of holiness as an expression of the divine in contrast with the human
ExamplesRomans 1:4 who was declared the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
2 Corinthians 7:1 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
1 Thessalonians 3:13 so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.
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dedication, consecration
The state resulting from being dedicated to the service of God
Examples1 Thessalonians 3:13 so that He may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐπιτελέωto complete 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πνεῦμαspirit 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ὁσιότης hosiótēs · G3742 · holiness, divine quality, dedication
- ἁγιότης and ὁσιότης both belong to the vocabulary of holiness. ἁγιότης denotes the state or quality of sacredness itself, while ὁσιότης denotes devout, reverent piety; the two are overlapping but slightly differentiated abstract nouns within the same semantic field.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Dedication, consecration53.45
- This noun denotes the ongoing dedication of oneself to God, as in 2 Corinthians 7:1's exhortation to cleanse oneself from every defilement, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
- Holiness, divine quality88.25
- The noun also denotes the state of holiness, as in Romans 1:4's description of Jesus Christ as declared the Son of God with power according to the Spirit of holiness.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (on the omega ω see references in ἀγαθωσύνη, at the beginning), (ης, ἡ, a word unknown to…
1. (God's incomparable) majesty (joined to μεγαλοπρέπεια, Ps 95:6, cf. Ps 144:5): πνεῦμα ἁγιωσύνης a spirit to which belongs ἁγιωσύνη, not equivalent to πνεῦμα ἅγιον, but the divine (?) spiritual nature in Christ as contrasted with his σάρξ, Rom 1:4; cf. Rückert at the passage, and Zeller in his Theol. Jahrbb. for 1842, p. 486 ff; (yet cf. Meyer at the passage; Gifford (in the Speaker's Commentary). Most commentators (cf. e. g. Ellicott on Thess. as below) regard the word as uniformly and only signifying holiness).
2. moral purity: 1 Thess 3:13; 2 Cor 7:1.
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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