2001 Translation

NAOUS, naous

Sounds Like: NAH-oos

Translations: temples, shrines, sanctuaries

From the root: ΝΑΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a temple or shrine, specifically the inner sanctuary or the dwelling place of a deity. It is often used to denote the sacred inner part of a building, as opposed to the entire complex. It can be used in a literal sense for a physical building or metaphorically for the body as a dwelling place of the Holy Spirit.

Inflection: Accusative, Plural, Masculine

Strong’s number: G3485 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 4:81
• To the Newly Baptized — 1:5

Codex Sinaiticus

• Joel — 4:5
• Acts of the Apostles — 19:24

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 18:119, 34:310

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 3 — 11:266
• Book 15 — 9:328
• Book 16 — 4:106
• Book 19 — 7:329, 9:359

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 13:17

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Joel — 3:5

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 19:24

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΝΑΟΣ.

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.

• ΝΑΙΣΚΟΣ — small temple, shrine, a small temple, a shrine
• ΝΑΟ — temple, a temple, sanctuary, a sanctuary
• ΝΑΟΙ — temples, sanctuaries, shrines
• ΝΑΟΙΣ — to temples, in temples, for temples
• ΝΑΟΝ — temple, a temple, shrine, a shrine
• ΝΑΟΣ — temple, a temple, sanctuary, shrine
• ΝΑΟΥ — of a temple, of the temple, to a temple, to the temple, temples
• ΝΑΩ — to a temple, in a temple, to the temple, in the temple
• ΝΑΩΝ — of temples, of shrines, of sanctuaries
• ΝΗΟΝ — a temple, temple, shrine, a shrine
• ΠΡΟΝΑΙΟΝ — fore-temple, a fore-temple, porch, a porch, vestibule, a vestibule
• ΤΟΥΝΑΟΥ — of the temple, of a temple

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