Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In archaeology, a temple, as distinguished from
hieron , a shrine (chapel) or sanctuary (in this latter sense not necessarily implying the presence of any edifice). - noun In architecture, the inclosed chamber or cella of an ancient temple, where were placed the statue and a ceremonial altar of the divinity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arch.) A term used by modern archæologists instead of
cella . Seecella .
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- noun architecture The inner part of a
Greek temple ; it contained astatue of the appropriatedeity surrounded by acolonnaded portico ; it gave rise to theRoman cella
Etymologies
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Examples
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In Re 11: 19 naos is used in a local sense; compare also Re 14: 15, 17; 15: 5, 8. 2.
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Presence (Gr. hieron, the temple-house; not the naos, which is the temple area, with its courts and porches), Lev.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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[1856] The Greek word naos (naio) = dwelling-place.
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God's elect are symbolized by the sanctuary at Jerusalem (1Co 3: 16, 17, where the same Greek word, "naos," occurs for "temple," as here).
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Jewish temple is mentioned, it is called hieron, not naos, and so in the apostolic Epistles; but this is simply because no occasion for mentioning the literal Holy Place (Greek, "naos") occurs in Acts and the Epistles; indeed, in Ac 7: 48, though not directly, there does occur the term, naos, indirectly referring to the Jerusalem temple Holy
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The Supreme Council of Antiquities said that a piece of a red granite shrine, known as a "naos," was purchased from an antiquities collector in
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This word has been employed in different meanings: (1) formerly, it meant the solemn placing of the relics upon the altar of a church which was to be consecrated, hence a newly consecrated church was called naos enthroniasmenos (naòs ’enthroniasménos).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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(and are called the "naos," Greek, not the hieron) and priests unto God
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They present the unfolding of God's plans for bringing about the grand end under three different aspects, mutually complementing each other. the temple -- the sanctuary or Holy place (Greek, "naos"), not the whole temple (Greek, "hieron"). opened in heaven -- A and C read the article, "the temple of God" which is "in heaven, was opened." the ark of his testament -- or "...
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The altar in its entirety constituted the true tabernacle of the Most High, who assuredly could not dwell sub divo without a special roof of his own under the lofty vaulting of the naos. (p. 163)
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cella
January 31, 2009