Original: ἱεροσυλέω

Transliteration: hierosyléō

Phonetic: hee-er-os-ool-eh'-o

Short Definition: Commit sacrilege

- Original: ἱεροσυλέω

- Transliteration: Hierosuleo

- Phonetic: hee-er-os-ool-eh'-o

- Definition:

1. to commit sacrilege, to rob a temple

a. in Rom. 2:22, where the meaning is, "thou who abhorrest idols and their contamination, doest yet not hesitate to plunder their shrines"

- Origin: from G2417

- TDNT entry: 07:15,3

- Part(s) of speech: Verb

- Strong's: From G2417; to be a temple robber (figuratively): - commit sacrilege.

Cognate: G1494, G2405, G2406, G2407, G2409, G2411, G2412, G2413, G2417, G2418, G2420, G749