hosiotēs
ὁσιότης
GreekG3742“holiness”
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Luk 1:75Eph 4:24
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ὅσιος“sacred”The word ὅσιος (hosios), the adjective meaning "devout" or "holy," is the best-known form of this small family and the one the New Testament uses most often. It describes a person whose life is bound to God and to what God himself has sanctioned: a church leader who is upright toward people and "holy" toward God, hands clean enough to be lifted in prayer, and above all Jesus, the "Holy One" God would not abandon in the grave. Its matching abstract noun ὁσιότης (hosiotēs) names that same quality on its own, and its matching adverb ὁσίως (hosiōs) says an action was carried out in that way. All three are one word in different forms, so they are studied together under the adjective.
ὁσίως“devoutly”The word ὁσίως (hosiōs) is the adverb of this family, meaning "devoutly": it says that something was done in a way that keeps faith with God. It appears once, where Paul calls both the Thessalonians and God to witness how "devoutly, uprightly and blamelessly" he had behaved among them. It carries the identical idea of the adjective ὅσιος (hosios), "devout, holy," and of the abstract noun ὁσιότης (hosiotēs), "devotion toward God," and simply describes the manner of an action rather than a person or a quality, so the ὅσιος entry covers it.
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