hagiasmos · sanctification

What it means

hagiasmos (ἁγιασμός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “sanctification”.

Being set apart for God and made holy.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Being set apart for God and living a holy life.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• sanctification ×9
• holiness ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Romans×2
• 1 Corinthians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×3
• 2 Thessalonians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×1
• 1 Peter×1

• Romans 6:19

  I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves to impurity and to iniquity for iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.

• Romans 6:22

  But now, having been set free from sin and made slaves to God, you have your fruit for sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

• 1 Corinthians 1:30

  But from him you are in the Messiah Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

• 1 Thessalonians 4:3

  For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;

• 1 Thessalonians 4:4

  that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

• 1 Thessalonians 4:7

  For God did not call us to impurity but in sanctification.

• 2 Thessalonians 2:13

  But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth,

• 1 Timothy 2:15

  But she will be saved through childbearing, if they remain in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

• Hebrews 12:14

  Pursue peace with everyone, and sanctification, without which no one will see the Lord,

• 1 Peter 1:2

  according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling with the blood of Jesus the Messiah: grace and peace be multiplied to you.