2001 Translation

ARCHIEREA, archierea

Sounds Like: ar-khee-eh-REH-ah

Translations: high priest, a high priest

From the root: ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a high priest, the chief religious official in ancient Israel. It is a compound word formed from 'ἀρχή' (arche), meaning 'chief' or 'first', and 'ἱερεύς' (hiereus), meaning 'priest'. It is used to denote the head of the priestly order.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G0749 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:1, 1:11, 1:32

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 36:1

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 3 — 7:151, 7:185, 8:215, 12:277
• Book 4 — 7:171
• Book 5 — 1:43, 1:57, 11:353
• Book 6 — 6:115, 6:122, 12:242, 12:254, 12:255, 12:270, 14:359
• Book 7 — 4:72, 5:110, 14:346, 14:347, 14:350, 14:352, 14:354, 14:355, 14:382
• Book 8 — 1:16
• Book 9 — 7:144, 8:161
• Book 10 — 4:55, 4:57, 4:59, 4:65, 8:149, 8:150, 8:154
• Book 11 — 8:317, 8:319, 8:330, 8:331, 8:333, 8:336
• Book 12 — 9:383, 10:393
• Book 13 — 2:45, 7:88, 7:223, 9:267, 9:269, 16:408
• Book 14 — 8:132, 8:139, 8:143, 8:155, 10:191, 10:197, 10:200
• Book 15 — 2:12, 2:15, 2:22
• Book 17 — 6:164, 6:165, 9:207
• Book 18 — 2:26, 2:34, 4:95
• Book 19 — 8:342
• Book 20 — 6:131, 8:162, 8:194, 9:205, 10:231, 10:235, 10:236, 10:238, 10:248

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 6:3, 8:13
• Book Two — 1:7
• Book Four — 3:35

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 33:2, 52:3, 86:4, 116:1

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 44:216

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Maccabees — 10:20, 10:69, 12:7, 14:35, 14:41
• 2 Maccabees — 14:13, 15:12
• 4 Maccabees — 4:16

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 26:57
• Mark — 14:53
• John — 18:24
• Acts — 23:4
• Hebrews — 3:1, 4:14, 4:15, 5:5, 8:1

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ἈΡΧΙΕΡΑΤΙΚΟΝ — high priestly, of a high priest, sacerdotal, a high priestly thing
• ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΙ — to the high priest, a high priest, high priest
• ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣΙ — to high priests, for high priests, with high priests, high priests
• ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΩΣ — (of) high priest, (of) chief priest
• ΟἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣ — the high priest, a high priest
• ΤἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΩΣ — of the high priest, of a high priest
• ΤΟΝἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΑ — the high priest, a high priest
• ΤΟΥἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΩΣ — of the high priest, of a high priest
• ΤΟΥΣἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΑΣ — the high priests
• ΤΟΥΣἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΙΣ — the high priests, the chief priests
• ΤΩΝἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΩΝ — of the high priests, of the chief priests

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