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Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #2416 - ἱεροσυλέω

Transliteration

hierosyléō

Phonetics

hee-er-os-ool-eh'-o

Root Word (Etymology)

from (G2417)

Parts of Speech

Verb

TDNT

3:255,349

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

to commit sacrilege, to rob a temple
1. in Rom. 2:22, where the meaning is, "thou who abhorrest idols and their contamination, doest yet not hesitate to plunder their shrines"

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

KJV (1)

Romans 1

NAS (2)

Romans 2

HCS (1)

Romans 1

BSB (1)

Romans 1

ESV (1)

Romans 1

WEB (1)

Romans 1

KJV (1)

sacrilege 1

NAS (2)

rob 1

temples 1

HCS (1)

do you rob their temples 1

BSB (1)

do you rob temples 1

ESV (1)

rob temples 1

WEB (1)

do you rob temples 1

RAH

ANT

V-PAI-2S 1

BEZ

V-PAI-2S 1

BGB

V-PIA-2S 1

BMT

V-PAI-2S 1

BYZ

V-PAI-2S 1

ELZ

V-PAI-2S 1

NA26

V-PAI-2S 1

SBL

V-2PAIS 1

SCV

V-PAI-2S 1

STV

V-PAI-2S 1

TIS

V-PAI-2S 1

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

ἱεροσῡλ-έω,

pf. ἱεροσύληκα SIG 417.8 (Delph., iii B.C.): —

I rob a temple, commit sacrilege, Ar. V. 845, Antipho 5.10, Pl. R. 575b.

II c. acc., ἱ. τὰ ὅπλα steal the sacred arms, D. 57.64, cf. Lycurg. 136; ἱ. τὰ ἱερά rob or plunder the temples, Plb. 30.26.9; θεούς Phalar. 84.1.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

ἱεροσυλέω, ἱεροσύλω; (ἱερόσυλος, which see); to commit sacrilege, to rob a temple: Romans 2:22, where the meaning is, 'thou who abhorrest idols and their contamination, dost yet not hesitate to plunder their shrines'; cf. Fritzsche (and Delitzsch) at the passage (Aristophanes, Plato, Demosthenes, others.)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

** ἱερο -συλέω , -ῶ

(< ἱερόσυλος , q.v.),

[in LXX: 2 Maccabees 9:2*;]

to rob a temple (commit sacrilege, R, mg.): Romans 2:22.†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἱεροσυλέω is used in its literal sense of robbing temples in Syll 237.8, .10 (end of iii/B.C.) ἐξήλεγξαν τοὺς ἱεροσυληκότας. . . καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἃ αὐτοὶ ἐκτημέν [οι ] ἦσαν οἱ ἱεροσυλήσαντες ἱερὰ ἐγένοντο τῶι θεῶι, with reference to those who had stolen part of the Phocians’ ἀνάθεμα at Delphi. Cf. also Pseudo-Heracleitus Ep. 7, p. 64 (Bernays) φίλους φαρμακεύσαντες, ἱεροσυλήσαντες. It is probable, however, that the word, which is here used with special reference to Ephesus, should be understood in the wider sense of ";doing sacrilege,"; as in the RV margin of Romans 2:22, the only place where it occurs in the NT : see, in addition to the commentators on this passage, ZNTW ix. p. 167 and s.v. ἱερόσυλος.

List of Word Forms

ιεροσυλεις ιεροσυλείς ἱεροσυλεῖς hierosyleis hierosyleîs ierosuleis