ἁγιασμός

ἁγιασμός, -οῦ, ὁ

(ἁγιάζω), [in LXX: Ezk 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), 1 Kor 1,30, 1 Thess 4,3,7, 2 Thess 2,13, Hebr 12,14, 1 Pet 1,2. Elsewhere it perhaps (Ellic.; but see Milligan, Th., 48) inclines to the resultant state: 1 Thess 4,4, 1 Tim 2,15 (Cremer, 55, 602).

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