Definition

sacred (physically, pure, morally blameless or religious, ceremonially, consecrated)

Etymology

from (an awful thing) (compare G53 (ἁγνός), G2282 (θάλπω));

Where the KJV renders it

• (most) holy (one
• thing)
• saint

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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