Temple
ναόςStrong’s G3485naos
Appears in 40 verses of the New Testament
In short
Naos is the Greek word usually translated “temple”, “temples” and “shrines”. It appears in 40 verses of the New Testament.
“Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”
Meaning
Usually translated “temple”, “temples” and “shrines”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- temple 40
- temples 2
- a temple 2
- shrines 1
- the temple 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Revelation 13
- Matthew 8
- Luke 4
- Mark 3
- John 3
- Acts 3
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 23:16Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
- Matthew 23:17Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
- Matthew 23:21And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
- Matthew 23:35That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
- Matthew 26:61And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
- Matthew 27:5And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
All 40 verses, by book
Greek dictionary
ναός naos · temple
ναός, -οῦ, ὁ (Att.. νεώς; ναίω, to inhabit), [in LXX (νεώς, 2Ma.6:2, al.) chiefly for הֵיכָל ;] 1. a temple (Hom., Find., al.). 2. The inmost part of a temple, the shrine (Hat., Xen., al.); in NT, (a) generally: pl., Act.17:24; of silver models of a heathen shrine, Act.19:24; …
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.