Word Summary
hosiotēs: piety, holiness
Original Word: ὁσιότηςTransliteration: hosiotēs
Phonetic Spelling: (hos-ee-ot'-ace)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: piety, holiness
Meaning: piety, holiness
Strong's Concordance
holiness.
From hosios; piety -- holiness.
see GREEK hosios
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3742: ὁσιότηςὁσιότης,
ὁσιότητος,
ἡ (
ὅσιος),
piety toward God, fidelity in observing the obligations of piety, holiness: joined with
διακιοσυνη (see
ὅσιος (and
δικαιοσύνη, 1 b.)):
Luke 1:75;
Ephesians 4:24; Wis. 9:3;
Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 48, 4 [ET]. (
Xenophon,
Plato,
Isocrates, others; the
Sept. for
יֹשֶׁר,
Deuteronomy 9:5; for
תֹּם,
1 Kings 9:4.) (Meinke in Studien und Kritiken 1884, p. 743;
Schmidt, chapter 181.)