ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣ, ἀρχιερευς
ARCHIEREUS, archiereus
Sounds Like: AR-khee-eh-REFS
Translations: high priest, a high priest
From the root: ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This is a compound word formed from 'ἀρχή' (arche), meaning 'first' or 'chief', and 'ἱερεύς' (hiereus), meaning 'priest'. It refers to the chief priest, the highest religious official in ancient Israel, responsible for leading the temple worship and performing the most sacred rituals. It can also refer to a chief priest in a more general sense. It is used in sentences to denote the specific individual holding this esteemed religious office.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0749 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:41
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 12:10
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Philadelphians — 9:1
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 7:159, 8:216, 10:243, 12:277
- Book 4 — 4:79, 8:186, 8:209, 8:218, 8:324
- Book 5 — 1:55, 1:103, 1:119, 9:318, 10:345, 11:358
- Book 6 — 6:107, 12:244, 12:256, 12:259
- Book 7 — 2:56, 4:76, 14:346, 15:393
- Book 8 — 1:12, 9:230
- Book 9 — 7:141, 7:148, 8:162, 8:164
- Book 10 — 4:58, 8:152
- Book 11 — 3:62, 4:75, 4:86, 4:90, 5:121, 7:300, 8:326, 8:347
- Book 12 — 2:51, 2:57, 2:85, 2:89, 6:229, 9:385, 10:391
- Book 13 — 2:46, 5:133, 5:166, 6:213, 7:121, 9:259, 10:282
- Book 14 — 8:151, 10:190, 10:192, 10:196, 12:304
- Book 15 — 2:11, 6:179, 11:403
- Book 16 — 6:162
- Book 18 — 4:94
- Book 19 — 5:287
- Book 20 — 1:6, 9:205
Josephus' The Jewish War
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 38:194
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Leviticus — 4:3
- Joshua — 24:33
- Ezra (Alpha) — 9:40
- 1 Maccabees — 12:3, 12:6, 14:17, 14:30, 16:24
- 2 Maccabees — 3:32, 14:3
- 4 Maccabees — 4:13
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 26:62, 26:63, 26:65
- Mark — 14:60, 14:61, 14:63
- John — 11:49, 11:51, 18:13, 18:19
- Acts — 4:6, 5:17, 5:21, 5:27, 7:1, 22:5, 23:2, 23:5, 24:1
- Hebrews — 2:17, 5:1, 5:10, 6:20, 7:26, 8:3, 9:7, 9:11, 9:25
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣ.
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.
- ἈΡΣΙΕΡΕΩΣ — of high priest, of a high priest
- ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΑΣ — high priest, a high priest
- ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΙΣ — high priest, chief priest, a high priest, chief priests
- ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣΙΝ — to high priests, for high priests
- ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΩΝ — of high priests, of chief priests
- ἈΡΧΙΕΡΩΣΥΝΗ — high priesthood, a high priesthood, office of high priest
- ΑΡΧΙΕΡΑΣΘΑΙ — to be a high priest, to serve as high priest
- ΑΡΧΙΕΡΑΤΙΚΟΣ — high priestly, of a high priest, sacerdotal
- ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΑ — high priest, a high priest
- ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΑΝ — high priest, a high priest
- ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΙ — high priest, a high priest, chief priest, a chief priest
- ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΙΣ — high priests, chief priests
- ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣ — high priest, a high priest, chief priest, a chief priest
- ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣΙ — to high priests, for high priests, with high priests, by high priests
- ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣΙΝ — to the chief priests, for the chief priests, with the chief priests, by the chief priests
- ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΩ — of the high priest, of a high priest, high priest
- ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΩΝ — of the high priests, of the chief priests
- ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΩΣ — (of) high priest, (of) chief priest
- ΑΡΧΙΕΡΩΣ — high priest, a high priest, chief priest, a chief priest
- ΤΕἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΙΣ — high priests, the high priests
- ὨΝἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΩΣ — (of) high priest, (of) chief priest
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