Word 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.)