ἁγνισμός
hagnismós · G49 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to purify, purification
To purify and cleanse ritually and thus acquire a state of ritual acceptability
ExamplesActs 21:26 Then Paul took along the men, and the next day, after purifying himself together with them, he went into the temple giving notice of the completion of the days of purification, until the sacrifice was offered for each one of them.
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
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἡμέραday 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
- καθαρισμός katharismós · G2512 · cleansing, purification
- Both terms refer to acts of ceremonial purification or cleansing. The terms appear to function as near-synonyms within the ritual/ceremonial register, though ἁγνισμός is attested only once in the corpus, limiting verification of full interchangeability across all contexts where καθαρισμός appears.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To purify, purification53.30
- This noun denotes ceremonial purification, as in Acts 21:26's reference to Paul giving notice of the completion of the days of purification.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (οῦ, ὁ, purification, lustration, (Dionysius Halicarnassus 3, 22, i., p. 469, 13;…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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