ἁγιασμός

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holiness

ἁγιασμός , -οῦ, ὁ (ἁγιάζω), [in LXX: Eze.45:4 (מִקְדָּשׁ), Sir.7:31 , etc. ;] as an active verbal noun in -μός, it signifies properly the process τὸ ἁγιάζειν, rather than the resultant state, ἁγιωσύνη, hence, __1. consecration ; __2. sanctification : so strictly in Rom.6:19,22 (but see Meyer), 1Co.1:30 , 1Th.4:3 ,7, 2Th.2:13 , Heb.12:14 , 1Pe.1:2 . Elsewhere it perhaps (Ellic.; but see Milligan, Th. , 48) inclines to the resultant state: 1Th.4:4 , 1Ti.2:15 (Cremer, 55, 602). † (AS)