2001 Translation

ARCHIEREŌS, archiereōs

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

Translations: (of) high priest, (of) chief priest

From the root: ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This is a compound noun, meaning 'high priest' or 'chief priest'. It refers to the principal priest, often the head of the priestly order, who held significant religious and sometimes political authority. It is used to indicate possession or origin, such as 'belonging to the high priest' or 'from the high priest'.

Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Masculine

Strong’s number: G0749 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:81

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 41:2, 64:1

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 0:12
• Book 3 — 7:178, 7:184, 8:214, 10:242, 14:307, 15:320
• Book 4 — 6:152, 8:224
• Book 5 — 2:159, 10:348, 11:354, 11:356
• Book 6 — 6:107, 12:259, 13:294, 14:360, 14:378
• Book 7 — 10:245, 10:249, 14:359
• Book 8 — 1:12
• Book 9 — 7:150, 7:158, 8:168, 10:224
• Book 10 — 8:150
• Book 11 — 3:73, 4:95, 5:151, 5:158, 7:297, 8:306, 8:309, 8:318, 8:322, 8:336, 8:338
• Book 12 — 2:43, 2:86, 5:237, 5:239, 6:156, 6:160, 9:387, 10:419
• Book 13 — 3:62, 5:164, 9:256, 10:282, 10:288
• Book 14 — 8:131, 8:148, 10:211, 10:222, 10:226, 10:241, 10:248, 12:314
• Book 15 — 11:408
• Book 16 — 6:163
• Book 17 — 1:14, 1:19, 3:53, 4:78
• Book 18 — 1:3, 2:34, 4:90, 4:93, 4:95, 5:109, 5:136
• Book 20 — 8:196, 9:208, 10:227, 10:237

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 1:26, 30:7, 31:18
• Book Two — 17:5, 17:22, 17:38
• Book Four — 9:19
• Book Five — 6:12, 7:14, 11:23, 12:16

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 42:1

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 1:3, 1:4

Polycarp of Smyrna

• Martyrdom of Polycarp — 14:3, 21:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Joshua — 22:13
• 1 Maccabees — 10:38, 13:42, 14:27, 15:17, 16:12
• 2 Maccabees — 3:1, 3:9, 3:10, 3:16, 3:21, 3:33, 4:13

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 26:3, 26:51, 26:58
• Mark — 2:26, 14:47, 14:54, 14:66
• Luke — 3:2, 22:50, 22:54
• John — 18:10, 18:15, 18:16, 18:26
• Acts — 19:14
• Hebrews — 13:11

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
• ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΑ — high priest, a high priest
• ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΙ — to the high priest, a high priest, high priest
• ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣΙ — to high priests, for high priests, with high priests, high priests
• 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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