hagiazō · sanctify, make holy

What it means

hagiazō (ἁγιάζω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “sanctify, make holy”.

Sanctify: treat as holy, set apart for God. "Hallowed be your name": may your name be recognized as 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. To set something or someone apart for God.
2. To cleanse from sin and change one's life.
3. To honor as holy: "hallowed be your name".

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

How it is translated

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

• sanctified ×19
• sanctify ×7
• sanctifies ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Luke×1
• John×4
• Acts×2
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×4
• Ephesians×1
• 1 Thessalonians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• 2 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×7
• 1 Peter×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 6:9

  So you pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be sanctified;

• Matthew 23:17

  Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the sanctuary that sanctified the gold?

• Matthew 23:19

  Blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

• Luke 11:2

  And he said to them, “When you pray, say: Father, may your name be sanctified; may your kingdom come;

• John 10:36

  do you say of the one whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

• John 17:17

  Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

• John 17:19

  And for their sake I sanctify myself, so that they too may be sanctified in truth.

• Acts 20:32

  And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

• Acts 26:18

  to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in me.’

• Romans 15:16

  that I may be a public servant of the Messiah Jesus to the nations, performing the sacred service of the good news of God, so that the offering of the nations may become acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

• 1 Corinthians 1:2

  to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in the Messiah Jesus, called to be saints, together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, their Lord and ours:

• 1 Corinthians 6:11

  And such some of you were. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were declared righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

• 1 Corinthians 7:14

  For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is they are holy.

• Ephesians 5:26

  so that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

• 1 Thessalonians 5:23

  Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your spirit and soul and body be kept whole, blameless, at the coming of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

• 1 Timothy 4:5

  for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

• 2 Timothy 2:21

  So if anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the master, prepared for every good work.

• Hebrews 2:11

  For both the one who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all from one; for this reason he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

• Hebrews 9:13

  For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify for the cleanness of the flesh,

• Hebrews 10:10

  By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus the Messiah once for all.

• Hebrews 10:14

  For by one offering he has made perfect for all time those who are being sanctified.

• Hebrews 10:29

  How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by the one who has trampled on the Son of God, and has regarded as common the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

• Hebrews 13:12

  Therefore Jesus also, in order to sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside the gate.

• 1 Peter 3:15

  but sanctify the Messiah as Lord in your hearts, always ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you;

• Revelation 22:11

  Let the one who does wrong still do wrong, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do righteousness, and the holy still be sanctified.”

And 3 more times.