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hieros G2411

ἱερόν (hieros) means “temple” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

ἱερόν Greek · G2411 71 tagged occurrences in 67 verses

Pronunciation guide: hee-er-on' Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G2411

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; (b) later, τὸ ἱ.,., a consecrated or sacred place, a temple: τ. Ἀρτέμιδος, Act.19:27; of the temple at Jerusalem, i.e. the entire precincts or some part thereof (as distinct from ὁ ναός, which see, the Sanctuary proper): 1Co.9:13, and frequently in Gosp. and esp. in Ac, Mat.12:6, Mrk.13:3, Act.4:1, al. (on the use of ἱ. in Imperial Iuser., see Deiss., LAE, 380 f.) (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

a temple, either the whole building, or specifically the outer courts, open to worshippers.

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How translators render G2411

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
temple 31
temple courts 31
temple guard 2
its 1
temple area 1
there 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
the temple 60
of the temple 10
temple 1

Verses containing G2411

Page 2 of 2. 67 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Acts 5:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles.

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  2. Acts 5:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.

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  3. Acts 5:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then someone came in and announced, “Look, the men you put in jail are standing in the temple courts teaching the people!”

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  4. Acts 5:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Every day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.

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  5. Acts 19:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    There is danger not only that our business will fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be discredited and her majesty deposed—she who is worshiped by all the province of Asia and the whole world.”

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  6. Acts 21:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he entered the temple to give notice of the date when their purification would be complete and the offering would be made for each of them.

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  7. Acts 21:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When the seven days were almost over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,

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  8. Acts 21:28 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    crying out, “Men of Israel, help us! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people and against our law and against this place. Furthermore, he has brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.”

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  9. Acts 21:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian with him in the city, and they assumed that Paul had brought him into the temple.

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  10. Acts 21:30 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.

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  11. Acts 22:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Later, when I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance

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  12. Acts 24:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and he even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him.

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  13. Acts 24:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Yet my accusers did not find me debating with anyone in the temple or riling up a crowd in the synagogues or in the city.

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  14. Acts 24:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    At the time they found me in the temple, I was ceremonially clean and was not inciting a crowd or an uproar. But there are some Jews from the province of Asia

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  15. Acts 25:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Paul made his defense: “I have committed no offense against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.”

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  16. Acts 26:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.

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  17. 1 Corinthians 9:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Do you not know that those who work in the temple eat of its food, and those who serve at the altar partake of its offerings?

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