G2416 – hierosuleo – ἱεροσυλέω – commit sacrilege
- Strong’s ID:
- G2416
- Greek Word:
- ἱεροσυλέω
- Transliteration:
- hierosuleo
- Pronunciation:
- hee-er-os-ool-eh’-o
- Part of Speech:
- verb
- Usage Count:
- 1
- Search:
- Find “hierosuleo” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G2417; to be a temple-robber (figuratively):—commit sacrilege.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) to commit sacrilege, to rob a temple
1a) in Rom. 2:22, where the meaning is, “thou who abhorrest idols and their contamination, doest yet not hesitate to plunder their shrines”
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.