Lexical Summary hierosylos: robbing temples Original Word: ἱερόσυλοςTransliteration: hierosylos Phonetic Spelling: (hee-er-os'-oo-los) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: robbing temples Meaning: robbing temples Strong's Concordance robber of temples From hieron and sulao; a temple-despoiler -- robber of churches. see GREEK hieron see GREEK sulao Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2417: ἱερόσυλοςἱερόσυλος, 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.) |