Definition

to be a temple-robber (figuratively)

Etymology

from G2417 (ἱερόσυλος);

Word family

• ἱερόσυλος hierósylos

How the KJV renders it

• commit sacrilege

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.