thysia · sacrifice

What it means

thysia (θυσία) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “sacrifice”.

Offering.

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. What was offered to God on the altar.
2. What one gives to God: one's life, one's praise.

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

How it is translated

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

• sacrifice ×14
• sacrifices ×14

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Mark×1
• Luke×2
• Acts×2
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×1
• Ephesians×1
• Philippians×2
• Hebrews×15
• 1 Peter×1

• Matthew 9:13

  So go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

• Matthew 12:7

  And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

• Mark 12:33

  and to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love the neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

• Luke 2:24

  and to offer a sacrifice according to what was said in the law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”

• Luke 13:1

  Now there were present at that very time some who were reporting to him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

• Acts 7:41

  And they made a calf in those days and offered a sacrifice to the idol, and they were rejoicing in the works of their hands.

• Acts 7:42

  But God turned away and handed them over to worship the army of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘You did not offer me slaughtered victims and sacrifices for forty years in the wilderness, did you, house of Israel?

• Romans 12:1

  I urge you then, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice living, holy, pleasing to God, which is your rational worship.

• 1 Corinthians 10:18

  Look at Israel according to the flesh: are not those who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar?

• Ephesians 5:2

  and walk in love, just as also the Messiah loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a pleasing aroma.

• Philippians 2:17

  But even if I am being poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and sacred service of your faith, I rejoice and rejoice with all of you;

• Philippians 4:18

  But I have received in full everything and I abound; I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, a fragrant aroma, a sacrifice acceptable, pleasing to God.

• Hebrews 5:1

  For every high priest taken from among human beings is appointed on behalf of human beings in the things relating to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins,

• Hebrews 7:27

  who does not have the need every day, as those high priests do, to offer up sacrifices first for his own sins, then for those of the people; for he did this once for all when he offered up himself.

• Hebrews 8:3

  For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices; therefore it is necessary for this one also to have something that he may offer.

• Hebrews 9:9

  This is a symbol for the present time, according to which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot make the worshiper perfect with respect to conscience,

• Hebrews 9:23

  It was necessary, then, for the copies of the things in the heavens to be purified with these rites, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

• Hebrews 9:26

  for then it would have been necessary for him to suffer many times since the foundation of the world; but now once at the end of the ages he has been revealed for the setting aside of sin by his sacrifice.

• Hebrews 10:1

  For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the realities, can never, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually year after year, make those who draw near perfect.

• Hebrews 10:5

  Therefore, when he comes into the world, he says: Sacrifice and offering you did not want, but a body you prepared for me;

• Hebrews 10:8

  When he said above: Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and offerings for sin you did not want, nor did you take pleasure in them —these are offered according to the law—

• Hebrews 10:11

  And every priest stands daily ministering and offering many times the same sacrifices, which can never remove sins.

• Hebrews 10:12

  but this one, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God,

• Hebrews 10:26

  For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

• Hebrews 11:4

  By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, through which he received testimony that he was righteous, God testifying about his gifts; and through it, though he died, he still speaks.

• Hebrews 13:15

  Through him, then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.

• Hebrews 13:16

  And do not forget doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

• 1 Peter 2:5

  you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus the Messiah.