ΙΕΡΟΣΥΛΑ, ιεροσυλα
IEROSYLA, ierosyla
Sounds Like: hee-eh-ROH-soo-lah
Translations: sacrilegious, robbing temples, a sacrilegious person, a temple robber
From the root: ΙΕΡΟΣΥΛΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something or someone that is sacrilegious, meaning they commit acts of disrespect or violation against sacred things, places, or persons. It can refer to the act of robbing temples or stealing sacred objects. It can also describe a person who commits such acts, a temple robber or one guilty of sacrilege. It is often used to denote a grave offense against religious sanctity.
Inflection: Neuter, Plural, Nominative or Accusative
Strong’s number: G2417 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 34:311
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΙΕΡΟΣΥΛΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΙΕΡΟΣΥΛΟΙ — sacrilegious, temple-robbers, robbers of temples, church robbers, desecrators, plunderers of sacred things
- ΙΕΡΟΣΥΛΟΝ — sacrilegious, a sacrilegious person, a temple robber, a robber of temples, a plunderer of sacred things
- ΙΕΡΟΣΥΛΟΥΣ — temple-robbers, sacrilegious persons, robbers of temples, a temple-robber, a sacrilegious person
- ΙΕΡΟΣΥΛΩΝ — of temple-robbers, of sacrilegious persons, of plunderers of sacred things
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