Lexical Summary hagiasmos: consecration, sanctification Original Word: ἁγιασμόςTransliteration: hagiasmos Phonetic Spelling: (hag-ee-as-mos') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: consecration, sanctification Meaning: consecration, sanctification Strong's Concordance holiness, sanctification. From hagiazo; properly, purification, i.e. (the state) purity; concretely (by Hebraism) a purifier -- holiness, sanctification. see GREEK hagiazo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 38: ἁγιασμόςἁγιασμός, (οῦ, ὁ, a word used only by Biblical and ecclesiastical writings (for in Diodorus 4, 39; Dionysius Halicarnassus 1, 21, ἁγισμός is the more correct reading), signifying: 1. consecration, purification, τό ἁγιάζειν. 2. the effect of consecration: sanctification of heart and life, 1 Corinthians 1:30 (Christ is he to whom we are indebted for sanctification); 1 Thessalonians 4:7; Romans 6:19, 22; 1 Timothy 2:15; Hebrews 12:14; ἁγιασμός πνεύματος sanctification wrought by the Holy Spirit, 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:2. It is opposed to lust in 1 Thessalonians 4:3f. (It is used in a ritual sense, Judges 17:3 (Alexandrian LXX); Ezekiel 45:4; (Amos 2:11); Sir. 7:31, etc.) (On its use in the N. T. cf. Ellicott on 1 Thessalonians 4:3; 1 Thessalonians 3:13.) |
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