STRONGS NUMBER G42

Original Word: ἁγιωσύνη
Transliteration: hagiōsynē
Phonetic Spelling: (hag-ee-o-soo'-nay)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: holiness
Meaning: holinessholiness.

From hagios; sacredness (i.e. Properly, the quality) -- holiness.

see GREEK hagios

STRONGS NT 42: ἁγιωσύνη

ἁγιωσύνη (on the omega ω see references in ἀγαθωσύνη, at the beginning), (ης, ἡ, a word unknown to secular authors (Buttmann, 73 (64));

1. (God's incomparable) majesty (joined to μεγαλοπρέπεια, Psalm 95:6 (), cf. Psalm 144:5 ()): πνεῦμα ἁγιωσύνης a spirit to which belongs ἁγιωσύνη, not equivalent to πνεῦμα ἅγιον, but the divine (?) spiritual nature in Christ as contrasted with his σάρξ, Romans 1:4; cf. Rückert at the passage, and Zeller in his Theol. Jahrbb. for 1842, p. 486 ff; (yet cf. Meyer at the passage; Gifford (in the Speaker's Commentary). Most commentators (cf. e. g. Ellicott on Thess. as below) regard the word as uniformly and only signifying holiness).

2. moral purity: 1 Thessalonians 3:13; 2 Corinthians 7:1.