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ναός
naós · Greek · Strong's G3485 · 45 occurrences
The KJV renders 7 different Hebrew and Greek words as “temple”
What it means
a fane, shrine, temple
from a primary (to dwell);
How the KJV renders it
shrine, temple
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“temple”
Answers that weigh this word
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Where it appears
45 occurrences in the Greek text, first 39 verses shown.
1 Corinthians 3:16 · N-NSM
Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
1 Corinthians 3:17 · N-ASM
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.
1 Corinthians 6:19 · N-NSM
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
2 Corinthians 6:16 · N-DSM
What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”
2 Thessalonians 2:4 · N-ASM
He opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
Acts 17:24 · N-DPM
The God who made the world and all things in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands.
Acts 19:24 N-APMEphesians 2:21 N-ASMJohn 2:19 N-ASMJohn 2:20 N-NSMJohn 2:21 N-GSMLuke 1:9 N-ASMLuke 1:21 N-DSMLuke 1:22 N-DSMLuke 23:45 N-GSMMatthew 23:16 N-DSMMatthew 23:17 N-NSMMatthew 23:21 N-DSMMatthew 23:35 N-GSMMatthew 26:61 N-ASMMatthew 27:5 N-ASMMatthew 27:40 N-ASMMatthew 27:51 N-GSMMark 14:58 N-ASMMark 15:29 N-ASMMark 15:38 N-GSMRevelation 3:12 N-DSMRevelation 7:15 N-DSMRevelation 11:1 N-ASMRevelation 11:2 N-GSMRevelation 11:19 N-DSMRevelation 14:15 N-GSMRevelation 14:17 N-GSMRevelation 15:5 N-NSMRevelation 15:6 N-GSMRevelation 15:8 N-ASMRevelation 16:1 N-GSMRevelation 16:17 N-GSMRevelation 21:22 N-ASM
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