ἁγιασμός
purification
‘purification’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Dative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
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.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine 5 times (50%)
- Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine 3 times (30%)
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine 2 times (20%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 10 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G38 appears — 10 distinct verses across 7 books. 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.
Romans 2 verses
- Romans 6:19 ἁγιασμόν n acc sg masc I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
- Romans 6:22 ἁγιασμόν n acc sg masc But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
1 Corinthians 1 verse
1 Thessalonians 3 verses
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3 ἁγιασμὸς n nom sg masc For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
- 1 Thessalonians 4:4 ἁγιασμῷ n dat sg masc that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
- 1 Thessalonians 4:7 ἁγιασμῷ n dat sg masc For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
2 Thessalonians 1 verse
1 Timothy 1 verse
Hebrews 1 verse
1 Peter 1 verse
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.
The Greek noun αγιασμος centers on the idea of “purification.” First canonically at Romans 6:19, it enters the text early. It turns up in 10 verses across 7 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to 1 Thessalonians (30%), then Romans and 1 Corinthians. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 10-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G38 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 →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,056
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,056 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Thessalonians 3 verses 30%
- Romans 2 verses 20%
- 1 Corinthians 1 verse 10%
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 10 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 8 verses · 80%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 10%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 10%
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: Holiness 5×, Sanctification 5×
- American Standard Version: Sanctification 10×
- Berean Standard Bible: Holiness 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Sanctification 9×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G38 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G38 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G38 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G38 across 10 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.
- consecration, purification
- the effect of consecration
Word origin
Derived from αγιαζω (hagiázō) (G37) — to hallow.
From G37 ; properly purification that is (the state) purity ; concretely (by hebraism) a purifier : - holiness sanctification.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G38 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἁγιασμῷ hagiasmō̂ | Noun, Dative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Thessalonians 4:4 | 5 |
| ἁγιασμόν hagiasmón | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Romans 6:19 | 3 |
| ἁγιασμὸς hagiasmòs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Corinthians 1:30 | 2 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αγιασμος appears 2 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 2 verses in 2 books.
- 2
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 2
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Ezekiel 45:4 ἁγιασμός
- Amos 2:11 ἁγιασμός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G38) 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.
- Ezekiel 45:4 ἁγιασμός It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister to Yahweh; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.
- Amos 2:11 ἁγιασμός I raised up some of your sons for prophets, And some of your young men for Nazirites. Isn't this true, You children of Israel?" says Yahweh.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G38) 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.
