Hallow or hollow as a question comes from a study on the Lord’s Prayer, Hebrew 10:14, and a short night of sleep. Grammer, tenses, and etymology are not real big in this study.

Hollow has several uses, but they revolve around something having an empty or not filled space inside.  

Websters Dictionary 1828 – Webster’s Dictionary 1828 – Hollow

Hallow is associated with being set apart as holy or sacred.

Websters Dictionary 1828 – Webster’s Dictionary 1828 – Hallow

The 1828 Websters’ is a good resource; it has Bible references, when appropriate, and is missing 200 years of humanism and cultural references. The contrast can be striking at times.

Hallow is what caught my attention. It is a good 1500’s Geneva and King James Bible word and is used in many modern translations. If you continue on your internet search, you might find a few references to the Lord’s Prayer or Father God. That may not be inappropriate, I just found it a bit odd to purposely leave them out. There were videos on hallowing the Name of the Lord.

This post started as a pointed and cute question on whether you are empty or filled with the Holy Spirit because of Jesus. We are holy because of Jesus’ sacrifice and His blood covering us in the sight of the Father. So, are you hollow or hallow?

Father God is holy, and He has agape for us; He loves righteousness and justice. These are important to Him. So, they should be important to us. The Father and Jesus wants a family that chooses to belong to Them and allows the Holy Spirit to work in them and through them.

Yes, things and places are holy and hallowed in the Bible. I see that as occurring because God ordered them that way, but He wants a holy people. In Man’s attempt to prove ourselves holy we add things to God’s Word and Works. An example is the Sabbath. God declared it holy and said to rest; Man, then started listing things to make sure that we “rest”. Jesus even talked about Man making the gold in the Temple more important than the Temple or Altar it was on (Matthew 23:16 +17), or gifts that should be helping Family but were being withheld. To put this into perspective, God paved the streets in heaven with gold, has a glassy sea (sapphire?) that His throne sits on, and pearls for gates. They are holy because He is in Heaven, the Holy City. (On a science note, glassy may just be smooth and something can be clear and have a color.)

To further your study, use this as a help.

Leviticus 22:32 Hebrew Text Analysis (biblehub.com) This passage has both words in it.    

Strong’s Hebrew: 6942. קָדַשׁ (qadash) — to be set apart or consecrated (biblehub.com)

Strong’s Hebrew: 6944. קֹ֫דֶשׁ (qodesh) — apartness, sacredness (biblehub.com)

To make holy.  ἁγιάζω | Free Online Greek Dictionary | billmounce.com