make holy

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“We take ultra-Orthodox students who want to make holy films and try to teach them how to listen to their souls and write films from a deep connection to God,” says Alpert.

From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2019

The same word that is translated sanctify, is in many places translated consecrate, or make holy.

From The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church by Rhodes, M. (Mosheim)

Hallow, hal′ō, v.t. to make holy: to set apart for religious use: to reverence.—n. a saint.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

What else needed he—he, whose greatest joy was to make holy ablutions in the mountain waters, or to climb the summits of the mountains and to wander about wrapt in the thought of God?

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel

From Moses’ lips the people of Israel, from his pen the Church of Christ, was to receive the message, ‘Be holy: I am holy: I make holy.’

From Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy by Murray, Andrew