ἁγνῶς
hagnōs · G55 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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sincerely, out of pure motives, sincere motives
Pertaining to purity of motives
ExamplesPhilippians 1:17 the former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition rather than from pure motives, thinking that they are causing me distress in my imprisonment.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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
- תֹּם tôm · H8537 · integrity, blamelessness, in full measure
- Hebrew noun denoting integrity and moral purity, corresponding to the adverbial sense of ἁγνῶς as 'with pure/honest motives'; both terms express moral uprightness and sincerity of conduct.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Sincerely, out of pure motives, sincere motives88.45
- This adverb denotes acting from pure motives, as in Philippians 1:17's contrast between those who proclaim Christ from selfish ambition rather than from pure motives.
Word family 13 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon adv, purely, with sincerity: Phm 1:16 (17).
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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