Lexicon hagnos: free from ceremonial defilement, holy, sacred Original Word: ἁγνός, ή, όνPart of Speech: Adjective Transliteration: hagnos Phonetic Spelling: (hag-nos') Short Definition: pure, chaste Definition: (originally, in a condition prepared for worship), pure (either ethically, or ritually, ceremonially), chaste. HELPS word-Studies 53 hagnós (an adjective, which may be cognate with 40 /hágios, "holy," so TDNT, 1, 122) – properly, pure (to the core); virginal (chaste, unadultered); pure inside and out; holy because uncontaminated (undefiled from sin), i.e. without spoilation even within (even down to the center of one's being); not mixed with guilt or anything condemnable. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as hagiosDefinitionfree from ceremonial defilement, holy, sacred NASB Translationchaste (1), free from sin (1), innocent (1), pure (5).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 53: ἁγνόςἁγνός, (ή, ( ἅζομαι, see ἅγιος); 1. exciting reverence, venerable, sacred: πῦρ καί ἡ σποδός, 2 Macc. 13:8; Euripides, El. 812. 2. pure (Euripides, Or. 1604 ἁγνός γάρ εἰμί χεῖρας, ἀλλ' οὐ τάς φρένας, Hipp. 316f, ἁγνάς ... μίασμα); a. pure from carnality, chaste, modest: Titus 2:5; παρθένος an unsullied virgin, 2 Corinthians 11:2 (4 Macc. 18:7). b. pure from every fault, immaculate: 2 Corinthians 7:11; Philippians 4:8; 1 Timothy 5:22; 1 Peter 3:2; 1 John 3:3 (of God (yet cf. ἐκεῖνος 1 b.)); James 3:17. (From Homer down.) (Cf. references under the word ἅγιος, at the end; Westc. on 1 John 3:3.)
Strong's chaste, clean, pure. From the same as hagios; properly, clean, i.e. (figuratively) innocent, modest, perfect -- chaste, clean, pure. see GREEK hagios |
