Vocabulary Form
ἱερόν, -οῦ, τό
Definition

temple

Erasmian
Modern
Root
ἱερο
Frequency
72
GK
2639
Cognates

Hieroglyphics is Egyptian writing, from the cognate iJerovV ("sacred," "holy") and gluvfw ("to carve, note down [on tablets]").

Mnemonics

There was no temple behind the iron curtain.

Mnemonic Singing

All ye who hear, now to His temple draw near;
join me in glad adoration.

Song

Biblical Concordance

Matthew 4:5 Then the devil took him into the holy city, placed him on the pinnacle of the temple (hierou | ἱεροῦ | gen sg neut),
Matthew 12:5 Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple (hierō | ἱερῷ | dat sg neut) break the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?
Matthew 12:6 But I say to you that something greater than the temple (hierou | ἱεροῦ | gen sg neut) is here.
Matthew 21:12 And Jesus entered the temple (hieron | ἱερόν | acc sg neut) and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple (hierō | ἱερῷ | dat sg neut), and he overturned the tables of the moneychangers and the chairs of those who were selling doves.
Matthew 21:14 Then the blind and the lame came to him in the temple (hierō | ἱερῷ | dat sg neut) and he healed them.
Matthew 21:15 But when the ruling priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the boys who were crying out in the temple (hierō | ἱερῷ | dat sg neut), “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant,
Matthew 21:23 And when he had entered the temple (hieron | ἱερόν | acc sg neut), the ruling priests and the elders of the people approached him while he was teaching and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”
Matthew 24:1 When Jesus had left the temple (hierou | ἱεροῦ | gen sg neut) and was walking away, his disciples came up to call his attention to the buildings of the temple (hierou | ἱεροῦ | gen sg neut).
Matthew 26:55 At that time Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to capture me as though I were a robber? Every day I sat in the temple (hierō | ἱερῷ | dat sg neut) teaching, and you did not arrest me.
Mark 11:11 And he entered Jerusalem and went into the temple (hieron | ἱερόν | acc sg neut). And looking around at everything, the hour already being late, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
Mark 11:15 Then they went into Jerusalem. And entering the temple (hieron | ἱερόν | acc sg neut), he began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple (hierō | ἱερῷ | dat sg neut); and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the chairs of those who were selling pigeons,
Mark 11:16 and he would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple (hierou | ἱεροῦ | gen sg neut).
Mark 11:27 And they came again to Jerusalem. And while he was walking about in the temple (hierō | ἱερῷ | dat sg neut), the ruling priests and the scribes and the elders came to him,
Mark 12:35 While Jesus was teaching in the temple (hierō | ἱερῷ | dat sg neut), he said, “How can the scribes say that Messiah is the son of David?
Mark 13:1 And as he went out of the temple (hierou | ἱεροῦ | gen sg neut), one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look, what massive stones and what magnificent buildings!”
Mark 13:3 So while he was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple (hierou | ἱεροῦ | gen sg neut), Peter, James, John, and Andrew questioned him privately.
Mark 14:49 Daily I was with you in the temple (hierō | ἱερῷ | dat sg neut), teaching, and you did not seize me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled.”
Mark 16:8 And going outside, they fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had taken hold of them. And they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.
Luke 2:27 So he came in the Spirit into the temple (hieron | ἱερόν | acc sg neut), and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him according to the custom of the Law,
Luke 2:37 and then she was a widow until she was eighty-four She did not leave the temple (hierou | ἱεροῦ | gen sg neut), worshipping night and day with fasting and prayer.
Luke 2:46 Then after three days they found him in the temple (hierō | ἱερῷ | dat sg neut), seated in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
Luke 4:9 Then he took him to Jerusalem and set him on the pinnacle of the temple (hierou | ἱεροῦ | gen sg neut) and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here;
Luke 18:10 “Two men went up into the temple (hieron | ἱερόν | acc sg neut) to pray, the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
Luke 19:45 Having entered the temple (hieron | ἱερόν | acc sg neut), Jesus began to drive out those who were selling things,
Luke 19:47 He began to teach daily in the temple (hierō | ἱερῷ | dat sg neut). The chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people were trying to destroy him,