Temple
ἱερόνStrong’s G2411hieros
Appears in 67 verses of the New Testament
In short
Hieros is the Greek word usually translated “temple”. It appears in 67 verses of the New Testament.
“Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,”
Meaning
Usually translated “temple”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- temple 71
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Acts 24
- Luke 14
- John 11
- Matthew 9
- Mark 8
- 1 Corinthians 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 12:5Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
- Matthew 12:6But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.
- Matthew 21:12And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
- Matthew 21:14And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.
- Matthew 21:15And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the son of David; they were sore displeased,
- Matthew 21:23And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
All 67 verses, by book
Greek dictionary
ἱερόν hieros · temple
ἱερός, -ά, όν [in LXX: Eze.28:18 (מִקְדָּשׁ); τό ἱ, 1Ch.29:4 (בַּיִת), Eze.45:19 (עֲזָרָה); very frequently in I Est.1:1-58 -4 Mac ;] 1. in Hom., marvellous, mighty, divine. 2. (Also in Hom, and later cl.) consecrated to the deity, sacred: pl., ἱ. γράμματα, 2Ti.3:15. 3. As subst., (a) (so in Hom.), τὰ ἱ., sacrifices, sacred rites, sacred things: 1Co.9:13; …
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “temple” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TEM'PLE, noun
[Latin templum.]
- A public edifice erected in honor of some deity.
- A church; an edifice erected among christians as a place of public worship.
- A place in which the divine presence specially resides; the church as a collective body. Ephesians 2:21
- In England, the Temples are two inns of court, thus called because anciently the dwellings of the knights Templars.
All definitions and other forms of “temple”
TEM'PLE, noun
[Latin tempus, tempora. The primary sense of the root of this word is to fall. See Time.]
- Literally, the fall of the head; the part where the head slopes from the top.
- In anatomy, the anterior and lateral part of the head, where the skull is covered by the temporal muscles.
TEM'PLE, verb transitive
To build a temple for; to appropriate a temple to. [Little used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.