ἁγίου,[18 verses] (adj sg neut gen) "Holy" is hagios, which means "devoted to the gods," "pure," "holy," and on the negative side "accursed." -- The Greek word translated as "holy" means "dedicated to the divine," which itself means both "pure" since things dedicated to the Divinewere first purified and "accursed" since using such things for your own purposes carried a punishment. See this article.