ἱερόν
temple
‘temple’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2411 appears in the Book of Acts — 24 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts
- Acts 2:46 ἱερῷ n dat sg neut Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,
- Acts 3:1 ἱερὸν n acc sg neut Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
- Acts 3:2 ἱεροῦ ἱερόν n gen sg neut n acc sg neut A certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.
- Acts 3:3 ἱερὸν n acc sg neut Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.
- Acts 3:8 ἱερὸν n acc sg neut Leaping up, he stood, and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.
- Acts 3:10 ἱεροῦ n gen sg neut They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
- Acts 4:1 ἱεροῦ n gen sg neut As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,
- Acts 5:20 ἱερῷ n dat sg neut "Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life."
- Acts 5:21 ἱερὸν n acc sg neut When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest came, and those who were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
- Acts 5:24 ἱεροῦ n gen sg neut Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they were very perplexed about them and what might become of this.
- Acts 5:25 ἱερῷ n dat sg neut One came and told them, "Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teaching the people."
- Acts 5:42 ἱερῷ n dat sg neut Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.
- Acts 19:27 ἱερὸν n acc sg neut Not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis will be counted as nothing, and her majesty destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worships."
- Acts 21:26 ἱερόν n acc sg neut Then Paul took the men, and the next day, purified himself and went with them into the temple, declaring the fulfillment of the days of purification, until the offering was offered for every one of them.
- Acts 21:27 ἱερῷ n dat sg neut When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,
- Acts 21:28 ἱερὸν n acc sg neut crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"
- Acts 21:29 ἱερὸν n acc sg neut For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
- Acts 21:30 ἱεροῦ n gen sg neut All the city was moved, and the people ran together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple. Immediately the doors were shut.
- Acts 22:17 ἱερῷ n dat sg neut "It happened that, when I had returned to Jerusalem, and while I prayed in the temple, I fell into a trance,
- Acts 24:6 ἱερὸν n acc sg neut He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.
- Acts 24:12 ἱερῷ n dat sg neut In the temple they didn't find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.
- Acts 24:18 ἱερῷ n dat sg neut amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.
- Acts 25:8 ἱερὸν n acc sg neut while he said in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all."
- Acts 26:21 ἱερῷ n dat sg neut For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple, and tried to kill me.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
ιερον — transliterated hierón — is a Greek noun carrying the sense “temple.” Debuting at Matthew 4:5, it then recurs through the corpus. The Greek New Testament uses it across 67 verses — moderately common. More than a third of its appearances fall in Acts. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. See the sense tree, 67-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2411 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 67
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 67 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #236
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 236 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 67 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 67 distinct verses.
- Gospels 42 verses · 63%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 38 verses · 57%
- Johannine 11 verses · 16%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 1%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Temple 71×
- American Standard Version: Temple 70×
- Berean Standard Bible: Temple 63×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Temple 71×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2411 across 71 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2411 across 70 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2411 across 65 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 6 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2411 across 72 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- used of the temple of Artemis at Ephesus
- used of the temple at Jerusalem
Word origin
Derived from ιερος (hierós) (G2413) — sacred.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G2411 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἱερῷ hierō̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 12:5 | 32 |
| ἱεροῦ hieroû | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 4:5 | 19 |
| ἱερὸν hieròn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 21:23 | 14 |
| ἱερόν hierón | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 21:12 | 6 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2411, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- ιερευς hiereús G2409 priest
- ιεροπρεπης hieroprepḗs G2412 reverent
- ιερωσυνη hierōsýnē G2420 priesthood
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word ιερον appears 1 time in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 1 verse in 1 book.
- 1
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 1
- verse
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Ezekiel 28:18 ἱερόν
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2411) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2411) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
