Lexicon hosiotés: piety, holiness Original Word: ὁσιότης, τητος, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: hosiotés Phonetic Spelling: (hos-ee-ot'-ace) Short Definition: holiness, godliness, piety Definition: holiness, godliness, piety. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 3742 hosiótēs (from 3741 /hósios, "what is sanctioned by the Lord") – properly, what God sanctions, i.e. what the Lord defines (ordains) as holy and just. See 3741 (hosios). 3742 /hosiótēs ("holiness") looks to the application of what God defines as sanctioned (i.e. as heaven's will works out on earth). This is holiness "fleshed out," i.e. incarnated by living in faith. [Note the close relationship of faith (4102 /pístis, "God's inbirthed persuasion") and 3742 (hosiótēs) in Eph 4:5-24.] NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom hosiosDefinitionpiety, holiness NASB Translationholiness (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3742: ὁσιότηςὁσιότης, ὁσιότητος, ἡ ( ὅσιος), piety toward God, fidelity in observing the obligations of piety, holiness: joined with διακιοσυνη (see ὅσιος (and δικαιοσύνη, 1 b.)): Luke 1:75; Ephesians 4:24; Wis. 9:3; Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 48, 4 [ET]. ( Xenophon, Plato, Isocrates, others; the Sept. for יֹשֶׁר, Deuteronomy 9:5; for תֹּם, 1 Kings 9:4.) (Meinke in Studien und Kritiken 1884, p. 743; Schmidt, chapter 181.)
Strong's holiness. From hosios; piety -- holiness. see GREEK hosios |
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