Strong's Greek · G2417

ἱερόσυλος

hierósylos

robber of churches

Definition

a temple-despoiler

Derivation

from G2411 (ἱερόν) and G4813 (συλάω);

Appears 1 time in Scripture

Acts 19:37

For you have brought these men here, though they have neither robbed our temple nor blasphemed our goddess.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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