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What does hieron mean?

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Noun
  1. A consecrated place, especially a temple.
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Luke has Zechariah ministering not merely at the hieron, the temple complex, but in the naos, the inner sanctuary of the temple restricted to the priests.
We should not go far astray in speaking of the hieron as an ancient Carlsbad as well as an ancient Lourdes.
He recalls to my memory the ship that hieron of Syracuse gave to Ptolemy, wonderful for its size.
He removed to Syracuse, where at the court of hieron he spent the remainder of his life.
But while the city has perished, the hieron has, in a certain sense, come to life again.
The tyranny of hieron, brother of Gelon, begins at Syracuse.

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