HALLOW

To render sacred, set apart, consecrate. The English word is from the Saxon, and means to make holy: hence hallowed persons, things, places, rites, etc.; hence also the name, power, and dignity God are hallowed, that is, reverenced as holy.

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Hallow. Hallow
To render sacred, to consecrate (Ex. 28:38; 29:1). This word is from the Saxon, and properly means “to make holy.” The name of God is “hallowed”, i.e., is reverenced as holy (Matt. 6:9).

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hallow. Hallow, v.t. to consecrate, devote, reverence

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Hal″low (hăl″lō̍), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hallowed(–lō̍d); p. pr. & vb. n. Hallowing.] [[OE. halowen, halwien, halgien, AS. hālgian, fr. hālig holy. See Holy.]] To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. “Hallowed be thy name.” Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed fire. Milton. In a larger sense . . . we can not hallow this ground . A. Lincoln.