ἅγιον hagion

Greek word for “Holy Place” · Strong’s G39 · used 11 times in 10 verses

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Meaning

ἅγιος, -α, ον; (τό ἅγός, religious awe;

Senses in the lexicon

• Holy Place (9)
• Most Holy Place (2)

How it is translated

Glosses given for hagion in context, with how often each is used:

• holy places 8
• holies 2
• holy place 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Hebrews 9 (7), Hebrews 8 (1), Hebrews 10 (1), Hebrews 13 (1)

Forms

• ἅγια 6
• ἁγίων 4
• ἅγιον 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with hagion more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• σκηνή skēnē “tent” 4
• αἷμα ahima “blood” 4
• πρῶτος prōtos “first” 3
• ἀληθινός alēthinos “true” 2
• εἰσέρχομαι eiserchomai “to enter” 3
• ἀρχιερεύς archiereus “high-priest” 2
• οὐδέ oude “nor” 2
• τε te “and/both” 2

Key verses

The verses using hagion that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Hebrews 8:2 — A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
• Hebrews 9:1 — Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
• Hebrews 9:2 — For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
• Hebrews 9:3 — And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all;
• Hebrews 9:8 — The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
• Hebrews 9:12 — Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
• Hebrews 9:24 — For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God…
• Hebrews 9:25 — Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
• Hebrews 10:19 — Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
• Hebrews 13:11 — For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.