Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• νεώς ‎(neṓs) Attic
• νηός ‎(nēós) Ionic
• ναῦος ‎(naûos) Aeolic
• νᾱϝός ‎(nāwós) Laconian

Noun

νᾱός • ‎(nāós) m ‎(genitive νᾱοῦ); second declension (Doric, Tragic)

1. a temple
2. innermost part of a temple, sanctuary, the part of the temple considered most pure and holy
   • 80-90 CE, Edwin Palmer, quoting Greek New Testament: I Corinthians, Parallel New Testament Greek and English, University Press, translation of Α΄ Επιστολή προς Κορινθίους, published 1887, 3:16, page 707:

     οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι ναὸς θεοῦ ἐστε καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ θεοῦ οἰκεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν;

     Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Declension

See also

• ἱερόν ‎(hierón)

References

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 766
• ναός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ναός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ναός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3485”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • chapel idem, page 124.
  • sanctuary idem, page 733.
  • shrine idem, page 771.
  • temple idem, page 860.
• Bauer lexicon

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ναός ‎(naós, “temple”)

Noun

ναός • ‎(naós) m ‎(plural ναοί)

1. (religion) place of worship: church, temple, mosque, synagogue

Declension

See also

• ναυς ‎(nafs)