hagiasmos (holiness)

Meaning

Usually translated “sanctification” and “holiness”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

sanctification 6
holiness 3
in holiness 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

1 Thessalonians 3
Romans 2
1 Corinthians 1
2 Thessalonians 1
1 Timothy 1
Hebrews 1

7 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

1 Timothy 2:15In contextNotwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
Romans 6:19I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.
Romans 6:22But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
1 Corinthians 1:30But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
1 Thessalonians 4:3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Thessalonians 4:4That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

All 10 verses, by book

Romans 2: 6:19 6:22
1 Corinthians 1: 1:30
1 Thessalonians 3: 4:3 4:4 4:7
2 Thessalonians 1: 2:13
1 Timothy 1: 2:15
Hebrews 1: 12:14
1 Peter 1: 1:2

Greek dictionary

ἁγιασμός hagiasmos · holiness

ἁγιασμός, -οῦ, ὁ (ἁγιάζω), [in LXX: Eze.45:4 (מִקְדָּשׁ), Sir.7:31, etc. ;] as an active verbal noun in -μός, it signifies properly the process τὸ ἁγιάζειν, rather than the resultant state, ἁγιωσύνη, hence, 1. consecration; 2. sanctification: so strictly in Rom.6:19,22 (but see Meyer), 1Co.1:30, 1Th.4:3,7, 2Th.2:13, Heb.12:14, 1Pe.1:2. Elsewhere it perhaps (Ellic.; but see Milligan, Th., 48) inclines to the resultant state: 1Th.4:4, 1Ti.2:15 (Cremer, 55, 602). † (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “holiness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

HO'LINESS, noun

[from holy.]

The state of being holy; purity or integrity of moral character; freedom from sin; sanctity. Applied to the Supreme Being, holiness denotes perfect purity or integrity of moral character, one of his essential attributes.

“Who is like thee, glorious in holiness?” Exodus 15:11
Applied to human beings, holiness is purity of heart or dispositions; sanctified affections; piety; moral goodness, but not perfect.
Sacredness; the state of any thing hallowed, or consecrated to God or to his worship; applied to churches or temples.
That which is separated to the service of God.“Israel was holiness unto the Lord” Jeremiah 2:3

All definitions

A title of the pope, and formerly of the Greek emperors.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.