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Name of God’s Son

ΙΕΡΟΣΥΛΟΙ, ιεροσυλοι

IEROSYLOI, ierosyloi

Sounds Like: hee-eh-ROH-soo-loy

Translations: sacrilegious, temple-robbers, robbers of temples, church robbers, desecrators, plunderers of sacred things

From the root: ΙΕΡΟΣΥΛΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun, Adjective

Explanation: This word describes someone who commits sacrilege, meaning they steal from or desecrate sacred places or things, especially temples. It can function as both a noun, referring to such a person, or an adjective, describing something as sacrilegious. It is a compound word formed from 'ἱερός' (hieros), meaning 'sacred' or 'holy', and 'συλάω' (sulao), meaning 'to plunder' or 'to rob'.

Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G2417 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

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.

  • ΙΕΡΟΣΥΛΑ — sacrilegious, robbing temples, a sacrilegious person, a temple robber
  • 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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