2417. hierosulos
Strong's Concordance
hierosulos: robbing temples
Original Word: ἱερόσυλος, ον
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: hierosulos
Phonetic Spelling: (hee-er-os'-oo-los)
Short Definition: robbing temples, sacrilegious
Definition: robbing temples, but possibly simply: sacrilegious.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2417: ἱερόσυλος

ἱερόσυλος, ἱερόσυλον (from ἱερόν and συλάω), guilty of sacrilege: Acts 19:37 (A. V. robbers of temples; cf. Lightfoot in The Contemp. Rev. for 1878, p. 294f). (2 Macc. 4:42; Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, Polybius, Diodorus, others.)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
robber of temples

From hieron and sulao; a temple-despoiler -- robber of churches.

see GREEK hieron

see GREEK sulao

Forms and Transliterations
ιεροσυλους ιεροσύλους ἱεροσύλους hierosylous hierosýlous ierosulous
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ἱεροσύλους — 1 Occ.

Acts 19:37 Adj-AMP
GRK: τούτους οὔτε ἱεροσύλους οὔτε βλασφημοῦντας
NAS: [here] who are neither robbers of temples nor
KJV: which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet
INT: these neither temple plunderers nor are defaming

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