Words the Bible translates as consecration
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- nezerנֵזֶרa mark of being set apart for God, worn on the head: the state of consecration itself, or the emblem that shows it (a Nazirite's unshorn hair, a priest's gold band, a king's crown).
- hagiasmosἁγιασμόςconsecration to God: being set apart to him as holy, and the holy life that follows from it
- milluמִלֻּאthe installing of a priest: the sacrifice offered when a man was put into priestly office, and the ceremony itself
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- a setting: the metal mounting that a precious stone is fitted into
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