Bible word study

Hieron (Strong’s G2411): Meaning in the Bible

Hieron (ἱερόν) is the Greek word numbered G2411 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a sacred place, i.e. the entire precincts (whereas G3485 denotes the central sanctuary itself) of the Temple (at Jerusalem or elsewhere). In the King James Bible it is translated temple..

• Original wordἱερόν
• Transliterationhierón
• Pronunciationhee-er-on'
• Strong’s numberG2411
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. neuter of G2413;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Hieron appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Hieron (G2411) stands behind 71 English renderings in 67 verses across 6 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Acts (25), Luke (14), Matthew (11).

How the King James Bible renders Hieron, by count

• temple64 of 71 (90 percent)
• the temple7 of 71 (10 percent)

Three places to read Hieron

• Matthew 4:5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
• Luke 19:45 And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought;
• Acts 3:2 And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Hieron in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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