What is a Temple What is a Temple What is a Temple What is a Temple Lets first look at the word temple The English word temple The English word temple The English word ID: 765314
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What is a Temple?
What is a Temple?
What is a Temple?
What is a Temple?
Let’s first look at the word temple?
The English word temple --
The English word temple --The English word ‘temple’ comes from the Latin word ‘templum’
The English word temple --The English word ‘temple’ comes from the Latin word ‘templum’The Latin word templum referred not so much as to a type of building as to an area that was marked out for religious purposes – i.e., a sacred place .
The English word temple --The English word ‘ temple’ comes from the Latin word ‘templum’The Latin word templum referred not so much as to a type of building as to an area that was marked out for religious purposes – i.e., a sacred place . Initially, a templum was the space or location for augurs to perform observations.
What is an augur?
Augurs
Augurs
Augurs Augurs were Roman priests who observed birds to interpret divine approval or disapproval from the gods. A templum is the place in which augurs would make their observations.
Augurs Augurs were Roman priests who observed birds to interpret divine approval or disapproval from the gods. A templum is the place in which augurs would make their observations . An augur observing the birds
The English word temple --The section of sky observed by augurs was also called a templum . The root word ‘tem’ means ‘to cut off.’ A templum was a space that was ‘cut off’ or separated for sacred purposes. The Greek’s had a word similar in meaning -- temenos .
Greek Word Temenos A Greek-English Lexicon (Liddell and Scott, 1940) : I. “a piece of land cut off and assigned as an official doman, especially to kings and chiefs”II. “ a piece of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god, precint ” III. “temple”
Greek Word Temenos Most often, temenos referred to the precinct surrounding the temple. For example:
The Step-Pyramid of Djoser
The Step-Pyramid of Djoser
The Step-Pyramid of Djoser
Temple of Herod the Great
Temple of Herod the Great
Temple of Karnak
Temple of Karnak
Temple of Karnak
Borobudur Temple
Borobudur Temple
Pyramid of the Moon, Teotihuacan
Temple of the Sun, Teotihuacan
Temple of Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacan
Temenos of Teotihuacan
Parthenon of Athens
Parthenon of Athens
Parthenon of Athens
Salt Lake Temple
Salt Lake Temple
Salt Lake Temple
Though templum and temenos can mean temple, these are not the normal words used in Latin or Greek for temple.
Latin: templum aedes (dwelling place of a god) delubrum (dwelling place of a god) sacellum (small shrine) fanum (sacred space)
Greek: temenos hieron (a consecrated place) naos (dwelling place of a god) oikos (house)
Hebrew beth or bayit (“house”) hekal (“palace”) har (“mountain”) quodesh (the “holy” place) quodesh makom (“holy place”) miqdash (sanctuary) mishkan (sanctuary, divine abode) ohel mo’ed (tent of meeting)
Sumerian E (house or temple) egal (“big house”, palace) temen (foundation pegs)E-temen-an-ki, "the temple of the foundation (pegs) of heaven and earth”[temen referring to the axis mundi]
So what does the English word temple mean?
So what does the English word temple mean?In this course, we will define a temple as a structure as a dwelling place of a god or gods, or other objects of religious reference and a place where worship of that object may occur.