ναός

• νεώς (neṓs) – Attic
• νηός (nēós) – Ionic
• ναῦος (naûos) – Aeolic
• νᾱϝός (nāwós) – Laconian

For Proto-Hellenic *nahwós, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *nes- (“to join with, to conceal oneself”). See νέομαι (néomai, “to go or come back”).

νᾱός • (nāós) m (genitive νᾱοῦ); second declension

(Doric, Tragic)

1. a temple
2. innermost part of a temple, sanctuary, the part of the temple considered most pure and holy
   • 80-90 CE, Edwin Palmer, quoting Greek New Testament: I Corinthians, Parallel New Testament Greek and English‎, University Press, translation of Α΄ Επιστολή προς Κορινθίους, published 1887, 3:16, page 707:

     οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι ναὸς θεοῦ ἐστε καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τοῦ θεοῦ οἰκεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν;

     ouk oídate hóti naòs theoû este kaì tò pneûma toû theoû oikeî en humîn?

     Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

• ἱερόν (hierón)

• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 766
• ναός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ναός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ναός in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3485 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • chapel idem, page 124.
  • sanctuary idem, page 733.
  • shrine idem, page 771.
  • temple idem, page 860.
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press

From Ancient Greek ναός (naós, “temple”)

ναός • (naós) m (plural ναοί)

1. (religion) place of worship: church, temple, mosque, synagogue

• ναυς (nafs)