ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣ, αρχιερευς
ARCHIEREUS, archiereus
Sounds Like: ar-khee-e-REH-oos
Translations: high priest, a high priest, chief priest, a chief priest
From the root: ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the chief religious official in ancient Israel, responsible for leading the temple worship and performing the most sacred rituals, especially on the Day of Atonement. It is a compound word formed from 'ΑΡΧΗ' (arche), meaning 'chief' or 'first', and 'ΙΕΡΕΥΣ' (hiereus), meaning 'priest'.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0749 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- 1 Maccabees — 12:3, 12:6, 14:17, 14:30, 16:24
- 4 Maccabees — 4:13
- Matthew — 26:62, 26:63, 26:65
- Mark — 14:60, 14:61, 14:63
- John — 11:49, 11:51, 18:13, 18:19
- Acts of the Apostles — 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
- ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣ — high priest, a high priest
- 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
- 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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