ἁγιωσύνη
holiness
‘holiness’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G42 appears in the Book of 2 Corinthians — 1 distinct verse. 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.
2 Corinthians
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.
“holiness” is the headline sense of the Greek noun αγιωσυνη (hagiōsýnē). A scarce word — 3 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. More than a third of its appearances fall in Romans. Its earliest occurrence is Romans 1:4. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. See the sense tree, 3-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G42 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Romans 1 verse 33%
- 2 Corinthians 1 verse 33%
- 1 Thessalonians 1 verse 33%
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 3 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 100%
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 3×
- American Standard Version: Holiness 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Holiness 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Holiness 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G42 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G42 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G42 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G42 across 4 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.
- majesty, holiness
- moral purity
Word origin
Derived from αγιος (hágios) (G40) — saint.
From G40 ; sacredness (that is properly the quality): - holiness.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G42 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἁγιωσύνην hagiōsýnēn | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | 2 Corinthians 7:1 | 1 |
| ἁγιωσύνης hagiōsýnēs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Romans 1:4 | 1 |
| ἁγιωσύνῃ hagiōsýnē | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Thessalonians 3:13 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G42, 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
- αγιαζω hagiázō G37 to hallow
- αγιον hágion G39 holy
- αγιοτης hagiótēs G41 holiness
- αγνος hagnós G53 sacred
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αγιωσυνη appears 4 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 4 verses in 1 book.
- 4
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 4
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Psalms 29:5 ἁγιωσύνη
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G42) 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.
- Psalms 29:5 ἁγιωσύνη The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
- Psalms 95:6 ἁγιωσύνη Oh come, let's worship and bow down. Let's kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
- Psalms 96:12 ἁγιωσύνη Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy
- Psalms 144:5 ἁγιωσύνη Part your heavens, Yahweh, and come down. Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G42) 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.
