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IEROUSALĒM / HIEROSOLYMA aka "Jerusalem." Greek preserves two distinct forms of the city's name: 
IEROUSALĒM (indeclinable, transliterating the Hebrew directly, the Septuagint's consistent 
form) and HIEROSOLYMA (a fully Hellenized, declinable form, re-shaped by association with 
Greek HIEROS, "holy"). Most NT authors favor one form heavily — Matthew and Mark lean 
Hellenized, John uses only the Hellenized form, Luke's Gospel and Acts use both, with an 
outlier's preference for the Hebrew form overall. Luke's own text alternates within a single 
episode: Luke 2:22 gives HIEROSOLYMA ("they brought him up to Hierosolyma"), Luke 2:25 gives 
IEROUSALĒM ("there was a man in Ierousalēm"). 
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Scholars have long debated the logic of this 
switching; the pattern most often proposed is that IEROUSALĒM tends to carry special covenantal 
or theological weight, while HIEROSOLYMA functions as the ordinary, administrative name for the 
"Jerusalem."
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