Exodus 13:2
Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.
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1 Peter 3:15
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
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17 occurrences in 16 verses.
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Exodus
1615 verses
Leviticus
1716 verses
Numbers
33 verses
Deuteronomy
22 verses
Joshua
32 verses
1 Samuel
11 verses
1 Chronicles
22 verses
2 Chronicles
65 verses
Nehemiah
11 verses
Isaiah
43 verses
Ezekiel
66 verses
Joel
33 verses
John
22 verses
Ephesians
11 verses
1 Thessalonians
11 verses
Hebrews
11 verses
1 Peter
11 verses
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קָדַשׁ
qâdash · kaw-dash'
63 times translated as this KJV form173 total Strong's occurrences
to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally)
Strong's KJV usage: appoint, bid, consecrate, dedicate, defile, hallow, (be, keep) holy(-er, place), keep, prepare, proclaim, purify, sanctify(-ied one, self), × wholly.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 13:2Strong's last: Joel 2:16
Open full H6942 profile →ἁγιάζω
hagiázō · hag-ee-ad'-zo
6 times translated as this KJV form29 total Strong's occurrences
to make holy, i.e. (ceremonially) purify or consecrate; (mentally) to venerate
Strong's KJV usage: :--hallow, be holy, sanctify.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: John 17:17Strong's last: 1 Peter 3:15
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H6942
And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
H6942
And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
H6942
Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD: so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
H6942
But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: wherefore their brethren the Levites did help them, till the work was ended, and until the other priests had sanctified themselves: for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests.
H6942
For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.
H6942
So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
English meaning and historical usage.
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sanctify
SANC'TIFY, verb transitive [Low Latin sanctifico; from sanctus, holy, and facio, to make.]
1. In a general sense, to cleanse, purify or make holy.
2. To separate, set apart or appoint to a holy, sacred or religious use.
God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. Genesis 2:3.
So under the Jewish dispensation, to sanctify the altar, the temple, the priests, etc.
3. To purify; to prepare for divine service, and for partaking of holy things. Exodus 19:10.
4. To separate, ordain and appoint to the work of redemption and the government of the church. John 10:36.
5. To cleanse from corruption; to purify from sin; to make holy be detaching the affections from the world and its defilements, and exalting them to a supreme love to God.
Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.
John 17:17. Ephesians 5:26.
6. To make the means of holiness; to render productive of holiness or piety.
Those judgments of God are the more welcome, as a means which his mercy hath sanctified so to me, as to make me repent of that unjust act.
7. To make free from guilt.
That holy man amaz'd at what he saw, made haste to sanctify the bliss by law.
8. To secure from violation.
Truth guards the poet, sanctifies the line.
To sanctify God, to praise and celebrate him as a holy being; to acknowledge and honor his holy majesty, and to reverence his character and laws. Isaiah 8:13.
God sanctifies himself or his name, by vindicating his honor from the reproaches of the wicked, and manifesting his glory. Ezekiel 36:23.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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