hierosulos

Strong’sG2417

robbing temples, sacrilegious

stem hierosul-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

** ἱερόσυλος, -ον

(< ἱερόν, συλάω), [in LXX: II Mac 4:42 (cf. -λημα, II Mac 4:39; -λία, 13:6)*;]

robbing temples: Ac 19:37.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2417 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidhee-er-os'-oo-los

a temple-despoiler

Fromfrom G2411 and G4813;

King Jamesrobber of churches.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἱερόσῡλ-ος, ὁ,
(proparoxytone) temple-robber, or generally, sacrilegious person, Refs 5th c.BC+: neuter as adjective, ἱ. θηρία Refs
II of things, got by sacrilege, παροψίδες Refs 4th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

temple robbers1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	hierosulos	hierosulas	hierosulem	hierosulois	hierosulais	hierosuleim
object accusative	hierosulon	hierosulan		hierosuloin1×ἱεροσύλους	hierosulain
direct address vocative	hierosulor	hierosular		hierosuloir	hierosulair
of, belonging to genitive	hierosulou	hierosulau	hierosuleu	hierosuloiu	hierosulaiu	hierosuleiu
to, for dative	hierosulo	hierosula	hierosule	hierosuloi	hierosulai	hierosulei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

hierosulstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

hierosul is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

hierosulamō — ἱεροσυλέω, I commit sacrilege

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

hierosuloin“temple robbers”objectaccusative plural1×

Acts 19:37“temple robbers”agava gar toin androin houtoin oute hierosuloin oute blasfēmarōntoin tan thean nu.For you have brought these men here, though they have neither robbed our temple nor blasphemed our goddess.