Hallow
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Exodus 28:38
- Last Reference: Ezekiel 44:24
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H6942 Used 15 times
To render sacred, to consecrate (Exodus 28:38; 29:1). This word is from the Saxon, and properly means "to make holy." The name of God is "hallowed", i.e., is reverenced as holy (Matthew 6:9).
HAL'LOW, verb transitive [Latin calleo, to be able.]
1. To make holy; to consecrate; to set apart for holy or religious use. Exodus 28:38. 1 Kings 8:64.
2. To devote to holy or religious exercises; to treat as sacred.
Hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jeremiah 17:22.
3. To reverence; to honor as sacred.
Hallowed be thy name.
HAL'LOWED, participle passive Consecrated to a sacred use, or to religious exercises; treated as sacred; reverenced.
HAL'LOWING, participle present tense Setting apart for sacred purposes; consecrating; devoting to religious exercises; reverencing.
HAL'LOWMAS,noun [See Mass.] The feast of All Souls.