ἁγνός
sacred
also: exciting reverence, venerable 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
- 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
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
Every verse where G53 appears in the Book of Titus — 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.
Titus
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.
“sacred” is the headline sense of the Greek adjective αγνος (hagnós). First canonically at 2 Corinthians 7:11, it enters the text early. It turns up in 8 verses across 7 books, an uncommon footprint. It concentrates in 2 Corinthians, which alone accounts for 25% of its uses. Not a single-sense word, it carries 2 senses, among them “exciting reverence” and “venerable”. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G53 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.
- 7 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 7 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
- 2 Corinthians 2 verses 25%
- Philippians 1 verse 13%
- 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.
- Pauline corpus 5 verses · 63%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 38%
- Johannine 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: Chaste 2×, Pure 2×
- American Standard Version: Pure 3×, Chaste 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Pure 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pure 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G53 across 7 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G53 across 8 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G53 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G53 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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.
- exciting reverence, venerable, sacred
- pure
Word origin
Derived from αγιος (hágios) (G40) — saint.
From the same as G40 ; properly clean that is (figuratively) innocent modest perfect : - chaste clean pure.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms G53 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἁγνὴν hagnḕn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | 2 Corinthians 11:2 | 2 |
| ἁγνά hagná | Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Neuter | Philippians 4:8 | 1 |
| ἁγνάς hagnás | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Feminine | Titus 2:5 | 1 |
| ἁγνή hagnḗ | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | James 3:17 | 1 |
| ἁγνοὺς hagnoùs | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 7:11 | 1 |
| ἁγνός hagnós | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | 1 John 3:3 | 1 |
| ἁγνὸν hagnòn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | 1 Timothy 5:22 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G53, 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
- αγιωσυνη hagiōsýnē G42 holiness
Derived from this word
- αγιος hágios G40 saint
- αγνεια hagneía G47 purity
- αγνιζω hagnízō G48 unclean
- αγνοτης hagnótēs G54 purity
- αγνως hagnōs G55 pure
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αγνος appears 8 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 8 verses in 4 books.
- 8
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 8
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Leviticus 23:40 ἄγνος
- Job 40:22 ἄγνος
- Psalms 11:7 ἁγνός
- Proverbs 15:26 ἁγνός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G53) 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.
- Leviticus 23:40 ἄγνος You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.
- Job 40:22 ἄγνος The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.
- Psalms 11:7 ἁγνός For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.
- Psalms 18:10 ἁγνός He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he soared on the wings of the wind.
- Proverbs 15:26 ἁγνός Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, But the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.
- Proverbs 19:13 ἁγνός A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
- Proverbs 20:9 ἁγνός Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"
- Proverbs 21:8 ἁγνός The way of the guilty is devious, But the conduct of the innocent is upright.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G53) 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.
