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ἁγίων (hagion)

ἁγίων is an Ancient Greek form of ἅγιος, meaning “holy, sacred”. It is the genitive plural feminine adjective or genitive plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of ἄγος, “pollution, guilt, curse”. It is the genitive plural neuter noun.

It can also be a form of ἁγής, “(garbled; cf. ἁγνός, pure, or ἐναγής)”.

Found 145 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Camillus 31.3: … καί δεξιουμένη τὸν δῆμον, ἐπιδεικνυμένη μὲν ἠρία καί τάφους πατέρων, ὑπομιμνῄσκουσα δὲ χωρίων ἱερῶν καί τόπων ἁγίων, οὓς Ῥωμύλος ἢ Νομᾶς ἤ τις ἄλλος αὐτοῖς τῶν βασιλέων ἐπιθειάσας παρέδωκεν.

New Testament, Hebrews 9.3: μετὰ δὲ τὸ δεύτερον καταπέτασμα σκηνὴ ἡ λεγομένη Ἅγια Ἁγίων,

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 3.9·3: καὶ τὸ χρῖσαι δὲ ἅγιον ἀγίων αὐτὸν δηλοῖ τὸν δεσπότην παραγενέσθαι Χριστόν. τίς γὰρ ἕτερος ἄγιος ἀγίων κληθείη ἂν εἰ μὴ ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν καὶ …

All forms of ἅγιος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.