noun · feminine
hosiotas
Strong’sG3742
holiness, godliness, piety
stem hosiot-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 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.
ὁσιότης, -ητος, ἡ
(< ὅσιος), [in LXX: De 9:5 (יֹשֶׁר), I Ki 14:41, III Ki 9:4 (תֹּם, תָּמִים), Pr 14:32, Wi 2:22 5:19 9:3 14:30*;]
SYN.: v.s. ἅγιος.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3742 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhos-ee-ot'-ace
piety
Fromfrom G3741;
King Jamesholiness.
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
disposition to observe divine law, piety, Refs 5th c.BC+; πρὸς θεῶν ὁ. piety towards them, Refs 1st c.AD+; also, like Latin pietas, ἡ πρὸς γονεῖς ὁ. Refs 1st 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.
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | hosiotas | hosiotais |
| object accusative | hosiotan | hosiotain |
| direct address vocative | hosiotar | hosiotair |
| of, belonging to genitive | hosiotau | hosiotaiu |
| to, for dative | hosiota2×ὁσιότητι | hosiotai |
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
hosiota 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
hosiota“holiness”to, fordative singular2×
Luke 1:75en hosiota kai dikaiosuna enōpion autou pantai tai …in holiness and righteousness before Him all the …
Ephesians 4:24… kata theon ktiziranton en dikaiosuna kai hosiota tau alētheiau.… like God in true righteousness and holiness.