A WORD A DAY.
HALLOWED. Familiar as we are with this word in the Lord’s Prayer and in other passages of the Bible, it still remains infrequently used. To hallow is to sanctify or to reverence as sacred, to set apart for holy purposes. The Anglo-Saxon halig, holy, changed into halgian, to make holy, and this in Middle English was written halyien or halwe. The use of this word survives in “Halloween” and “All Hallowes.” Lands and houses were hallowed or dedicated to God in biblical times that harvests and families might increase according to His will. It has been affirmed that Christ is called “The Holy” in the Scriptures because “He only sanctifieth and halloweth us.” To “dedicate” is to give up to sacred uses; to “devote” is to dedicate solemnly and exclusively; to “consecrate” is to set apart as being itself sacred or exalted; to “hallow” is to make sacred or holy. The first of the two syllables should be accented, hal-lowed. Sound the a as in an, the o as in low. “Hallowed by Thy name.’’
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Southland Times, Issue 21194, 22 September 1930, Page 8
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179A WORD A DAY. Southland Times, Issue 21194, 22 September 1930, Page 8
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