Word Summary
hagneia: purity
Original Word: ἁγνείαTransliteration: hagneia
Phonetic Spelling: (hag-ni'-ah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: purity
Meaning: purity
Strong's Concordance
purity.
From hagnos; cleanliness (the quality), i.e. (specially) chastity -- purity.
see GREEK hagnos
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 47: ἁγνείαἁγνεία (
WH ἁγνία (see Iota)),
(ας,
ἡ, (
ἁγνεύω),
purity, sinlessness of life:
1 Timothy 4:12;
1 Timothy 5:2. (Of a Nazarite,
Numbers 6:2, 21.) (From
Sophocles O. T. 864 down.)