ὅσιος
holy
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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
3 distinct verses where G3741 appears in the Nominative case, across 2 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Hebrews 1 verse
Revelation 2 verses
- Revelation 15:4 ὅσιος adj nom sg masc Who wouldn't fear you, Lord, And glorify your name? For you only are holy. For all the nations will come and worship before you. For your righteous acts have been revealed."
- Revelation 16:5 ὅσιος adj nom sg masc I heard the angel of the waters saying, "You are righteous, who are and who were, you Holy One, because you have judged these things.
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.
οσιος — transliterated hósios — is a Greek adjective carrying the sense “holy.” Its earliest occurrence is Acts 2:27. Spanning 8 verses in 5 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Acts (38% of all occurrences). Sharing its root, it stands alongside οσιοτης and οσιως. See the sense tree, 8-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3741 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Acts 3 verses 38%
- Revelation 2 verses 25%
- 1 Timothy 1 verse 13%
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 8 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 38%
- Johannine 2 verses · 25%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 25%
- Revelation 2 verses · 25%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 13%
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: Holy 2×, Holy one 2×
- American Standard Version: Holy 3×, Holy one 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Holy 5×, Holy one 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Holy 4×, Holy one 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3741 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3741 across 7 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3741 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3741 across 8 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 1 sense 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.
- undefiled by sin, free from wickedness, religiously observing every moral obligation, pure holy, pious
Word origin
Origin: of uncertain affinity
Of uncertain affinity; properly right (by intrinsic or divine character; thus distinguished from G1342 which refers rather to human statutes and relations; from G2413 which denotes formal consecration ; and from G40 which relates to purity from defilement) that is hallowed ( pious sacred sure ): - holy mercy shalt be.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms G3741 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ὅσιος hósios | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Hebrews 7:26 | 3 |
| ὅσιόν hósión | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Acts 2:27 | 2 |
| ὁσίους hosíous | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | 1 Timothy 2:8 | 1 |
| ὅσια hósia | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Acts 13:34 | 1 |
| ὅσιον hósion | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Titus 1:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3741, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word οσιος appears 41 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 41 verses in 7 books.
- 41
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 41
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 29:18 ὅσιος
- 2 Samuel 22:26 ὅσιος
- Psalms 4:4 ὅσιος
- Proverbs 2:11 ὅσιος
- Isaiah 55:3 ὅσιος
- Daniel 3:87 ὅσιος
- Amos 5:10 ὅσιος
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3741) 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.
- Deuteronomy 29:18 ὅσιος lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
- Deuteronomy 32:4 ὅσιος The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.
- Deuteronomy 33:8 ὅσιος Of Levi he said, Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, Whom you did prove at Massah, With whom you did strive at the waters of Meribah;
- 2 Samuel 22:26 ὅσιος With the merciful you will show yourself merciful; With the perfect man you will show yourself perfect;
- Psalms 4:4 ὅσιος Stand in awe, and don't sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
- Psalms 11:2 ὅσιος For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, That they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
- Psalms 15:10 ὅσιος
- Psalms 17:26 ὅσιος
- Psalms 29:5 ὅσιος The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
- Psalms 30:24 ὅσιος
- Psalms 31:6 ὅσιος I hate those who regard lying vanities, But I trust in Yahweh.
- Psalms 36:28 ὅσιος
- Psalms 42:1 ὅσιος As the deer pants for the water brooks, So my soul pants after you, God.
- Psalms 49:5 ὅσιος Why should I fear in the days of evil, When iniquity at my heels surrounds me?
- Psalms 51:11 ὅσιος Don't throw me from your presence, And don't take your holy Spirit from me.
- Psalms 78:2 ὅσιος I will open my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
- Psalms 84:9 ὅσιος Behold, God our shield, Look at the face of your anointed.
- Psalms 85:2 ὅσιος You have forgiven the iniquity of your people. You have covered all their sin. Selah.
- Psalms 88:20 ὅσιος
- Psalms 96:10 ὅσιος Say among the nations, "Yahweh reigns." The world is also established. It can't be moved. He will judge the peoples with equity.
- Psalms 115:6 ὅσιος They have ears, but they don't hear; They have noses, but they don't smell;
- Psalms 131:9 ὅσιος
- Psalms 131:16 ὅσιος
- Psalms 144:10 ὅσιος You are he who gives salvation to kings, Who rescues David, his servant, from the deadly sword.
- Psalms 144:13 ὅσιος Our barns are full, filled with all kinds of provision. Our sheep bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our fields.
- Psalms 144:17 ὅσιος
- Psalms 148:14 ὅσιος He has lifted up the horn of his people, The praise of all his saints; Even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!
- Psalms 149:5 ὅσιος Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.
- Psalms 149:9 ὅσιος To execute on them the written judgment. All his saints have this honor. Praise Yah!
- Proverbs 2:11 ὅσιος Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
- Proverbs 2:21 ὅσιος For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
- Proverbs 10:29 ὅσιος The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
- Proverbs 17:26 ὅσιος Also to punish the righteous is not good, Nor to flog officials for their integrity.
- Proverbs 18:5 ὅσιος To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, Nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
- Proverbs 20:11 ὅσιος Even a child makes himself known by his doings, Whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.
- Proverbs 21:15 ὅσιος It is joy to the righteous to do justice; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.
- Proverbs 22:11 ὅσιος He who loves purity of heart and speaks gracefully Is the king's friend.
- Proverbs 29:10 ὅσιος The bloodthirsty hate a man of integrity; And they seek the life of the upright.
- Isaiah 55:3 ὅσιος Turn your ear, and come to me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Daniel 3:87 ὅσιος
- Amos 5:10 ὅσιος They hate him who reproves in the gate, And they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3741) 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.
