What Does “Consecrate” Mean in the Bible?
To set something or someone apart for God alone. “Consecrated to the Lord” means that it belongs to God.
A detail
- At Mass: the consecration is when the priest says the words of Jesus, and the bread and wine become his Body and Blood.
Where it appears in the Bible
Exodus 13:2; Luke 2:23
What the Bible says
Exodus 13:2
Sanctify unto me every firstborn that openeth the womb among the children of Israel, as well of men as of beasts: for they are all mine.
Luke 2:23
As it is written in the law of the Lord: Every male opening the womb shall be called holy to the Lord:
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Catechism 1353; GIRM 79; RAE, “consagrar”