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θυσία

thusiaG2378

sacrifice

Used 28 times in the tagged text.

What it means

  • actively, an offering, sacrifice
  • Objectively, that which is offered, a sacrifice
Full dictionary entry (technical)
  • θυσία, -ας, ἡ
  • (θύω) [in LXX chiefly for מִנְחָה, זָבַח ;]
  • 1. actively, an offering, sacrifice (Hdt., al.)
  • 2. Objectively, that which is offered, a sacrifice: Mat.9:13 12:7" (LXX), Mrk.9:49 (WH, mg.), Eph.5:2, Heb.10:5, 26; pl. (as usually in cl.), Mrk.12:33, Luk.13:1, Heb.9:23 10:1, 8, (θ. καὶ προσφοράς); θ. ἀνάγειν, Act.7:41; ἀναφέρειν, Heb.7:27; προσφέρειν, Act.7:42, Heb.5:1 8:3 (δῶρά τε καὶ θ.) Heb.10:11-12 11:4; δοῦναι, Luk.2:24; pass., Heb.9:9; διὰ τῆς θ. αὐτοῦ, Heb.9:26; ἐσθίειν τὰς θ. (Lev.7:15 ff) 1Co.10:18. Metaphorical, Php.4:18, Heb.13:16; θ. πνευματικαί, 1Pe.2:5; θ. ζῶσα, Rom.12:1; θ. αἰνέσεως, Heb.13:15; θ. . . . τ. πίστεως, Php.2:17.†
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Same idea, other words · Blood and sacrifice

The sacrifices teach by pattern: life given, blood shed, sin covered. Hebrews reads them all as pointing to Christ.

Where it appears

  • Matthew2
  • Mark1
  • Luke2
  • Acts2
  • Romans1
  • 1 Corinthians1
  • Ephesians1
  • Philippians2
  • Hebrews15
  • 1 Peter1

Every use · BSB

  1. Matthew 9:13θυσίαν·sacrifice;’

    But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

  2. Matthew 12:7θυσίαν,sacrifice,’

    If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

  3. Mark 12:33θυσιῶν.sacrifices.

    and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”

  4. Luke 2:24θυσίανa sacrifice

    and to offer the sacrifice specified in the Law of the Lord: “A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”

  5. Luke 13:1θυσιῶνsacrifices

    At that time some of those present told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices.

  6. Acts 7:41θυσίανa sacrifice

    At that time they made a calf and offered a sacrifice to the idol, rejoicing in the works of their hands.

  7. Acts 7:42θυσίαςsacrifices

    But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

  8. Romans 12:1θυσίανa sacrifice

    Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

  9. 1 Corinthians 10:18θυσίαςsacrifices

    Consider the people of Israel: Are not those who eat the sacrifices fellow partakers in the altar?

  10. Ephesians 5:2θυσίανa sacrifice

    and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.

  11. Philippians 2:17θυσίᾳsacrifice

    But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.

  12. Philippians 4:18θυσίανa sacrifice

    I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.

  13. Hebrews 5:1θυσίαςsacrifices

    Every high priest is appointed from among men to represent them in matters relating to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.

  14. Hebrews 7:27θυσίαςsacrifices

    Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; He sacrificed for sin once for all when He offered up Himself.

  15. Hebrews 8:3θυσίαςsacrifices

    And since every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, it was necessary for this One also to have something to offer.

  16. Hebrews 9:9θυσίαιsacrifices

    It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.

  17. Hebrews 9:23θυσίαιςsacrifices

    So it was necessary for the copies of the heavenly things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

  18. Hebrews 9:26θυσίαςsacrifice

    Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

  19. Hebrews 10:1θυσίαιςsacrifices

    For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

  20. Hebrews 10:5θυσίανSacrifice

    Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me.

  21. Hebrews 10:8θυσίαςsacrifices

    In the passage above He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You delight in them” (although they are offered according to the law).

  22. Hebrews 10:11θυσίας,sacrifices,

    Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

  23. Hebrews 10:12θυσίανsacrifice

    But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.

  24. Hebrews 10:26θυσία,a sacrifice,

    If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

  25. Hebrews 11:4θυσίανsacrifice

    By faith Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous when God gave approval to his gifts. And by faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.

  26. Hebrews 13:15θυσίαν[the] sacrifice

    Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.

  27. Hebrews 13:16θυσίαιςsacrifices

    And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

  28. 1 Peter 2:5θυσίαςsacrifices

    you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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