- ἱερόν
- ἱερόν, οῦ, τό (subst. neut. of the adj. ἱερός, q.v.) sanctuary, temple (so Hdt.+)ⓐ of Gr-Rom. temples (Diod S 13, 7, 6 τ. Διὸς ἱερόν; Appian, Liby. 81 §383 al.; Bel 22 Theod.; 1 Macc 10:84; Philo, Leg. ad Gai. 139 al.; Jos., Ant. 18, 65; Just., A I, 9, 5; Ath. 14, 2) the temple of Artemis at Ephesus (s. b end, below) Ac 19:27.ⓑ of the temple at Jerusalem, including the whole temple precinct w. its buildings, courts, etc. (LXX; Ezk 45:19; 1 Ch 29:4 and oft. in the Apocrypha; TestSol; EpArist; Philo, Joseph.; Just., A I, 32, 6 τὸ μέγιστον ἱ. … τῶν Ἰουδαίων; Polyb. 16, 39, 4; Diod S 40, 3, 3; Strabo 16, 2, 34; OGI 598, 3; PGM 13, 233) Mt 12:6; 21:23; 24:1b; Mk 11:27; 12:35; 13:3; Lk 2:46; 20:1; 21:5; J 8:20; 11:56; 18:20; Ac 24:6; 25:8; Ox 840, 9. στρατηγὸς τ. ἱεροῦ captain of the temple (Jos., Bell. 6, 294) Ac 4:1; 5:24; pl. Lk 22:52. ἀναβαίνειν εἰς τὸ ἱ. Lk 18:10; J 7:14; Ac 3:1. εἰσάγειν εἰς τὸ ἱ. 21:28f. (εἰς)ελθεῖν εἰς τὸ ἱ. Mt 21:12a, 23; Mk 11:11, 15a; Lk 2:27; 19:45; Ac 3:8; 5:21. εἰσιέναι εἰς τὸ ἱ. 3:3; 21:26. εἰσπορεύεσθαι εἰς τὸ ἱ. 3:2b. παραγίνεσθαι εἰς τὸ ἱ. J 8:2. ἐξελθεῖν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἱ. Mt 24:1a; ἐκ τοῦ ἱ. J 8:59; ἐκπορεύεσθαι ἐκ τοῦ ἱ. Mk 13:1. Cp. Mt 26:55; Mk 14:49; Lk 19:47; 21:37; 22:53; 24:53; J 5:14; 7:28; Ac 2:46; 3:2a; 5:20, 25, 42; 21:27; 22:17; 24:12, 18; 26:21. ἔξω τοῦ ἱ. Ac 21:30. As the place where the priests worked Mt 12:5. Provided w. porticoes J 10:23. Even when the action takes place in the Court of the Gentiles, where merchants and money-changers had their places Mt 21:12 (s. also vss. 14 and 15); Mk 11:15f; Lk 19:45; J 2:14f, or in the Court of Women Lk 2:37, the choice of the word ἱ. emphasizes the fact that the holy precinct is the scene of the action (τὸ ἱ. w. ὁ ναός the temple bldg: Jos., Bell. 2, 400. On the cleansing of the temple s. ACaldecott, JTS 24, 1923, 382ff; FBurkitt, ibid. 25, 1924, 386ff; FBraun, RB 38, 1929, 178–200; ELohmeyer, ThBl 20, ’41, 257–64.—Appian, Bell. Civ. 2, 120 §507 ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς robbers encamp in the temples; Ep. 65 of Apollonius of Tyana [Philostrat. I 363, 23] the ἱερόν of Artemis at Ephesus as τῶν ἀποστερούντων μυχός=hideaway for robbers). On τὸ πτερύγιον τοῦ ἱεροῦ (Mt 4:5; Lk 4:9; PEg3 8 [πτερύγιον restored]) s. πτερύγιον. On ἐπὶ τῇ ὡραίᾳ πύλῃ τοῦ ἱ. Ac 3:10 s. ὡραῖος 2.ⓒ in a gener. sense, whether polytheistic or monotheistic: τὰ ἐκ τοῦ ἱ. ἐσθίειν 1 Cor 9:13 (s. JMoffatt, Comm.).—PJoüon, Les mots employés pour désigner ‘le temple’ dans AT, NT et Josèphe: RSR 25, ’35, 329–43; OWolf, D. Tempel v. Jerus. ’31; ELohmeyer, Kultus u. Evglm, ’42; GMay, ET 62, ’50f, 346f; CKopp, The Holy Places in the Gospels (tr. RWalls) ’63, 283–304; RClements, God and Temple, ’65; SSafrai, The Temple: CRINT I/2, 865–907.—B. 1465. M-M. EDNT. TW. Sv.
Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά παλαιοχριστιανική Λογοτεχνία. 2015.