ΙΕΡΕΙΟΝ, ιερειον
IEREION, iereion
Sounds Like: hee-EH-ree-on
Translations: sacrifice, a sacrifice, victim, a victim, sacrificial animal, a sacrificial animal
From the root: ΙΕΡΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to an animal that is offered as a sacrifice to a deity. It is used to denote the sacrificial victim itself, rather than the act of sacrificing. It can be used in contexts describing religious rituals or offerings.
Inflection: Singular, Neuter, Nominative or Accusative or Vocative
Strong’s number: G2403 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΙΕΡΟΣ.
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.
- ΙΕΡΑΙ — holy, sacred, a holy, a sacred
- ΙΕΡΑΙΣ — to holy, to sacred, to consecrated, to divine, to a holy, to a sacred, to a consecrated, to a divine
- ΙΕΡΑΝ — holy, sacred, a holy, a sacred
- ΙΕΡΑΣ — sacred, holy, a sacred, a holy, of sacred, of holy
- ΙΕΡΟΙ — holy, sacred, a holy thing, sacred things
- ΙΕΡΟΙΣ — holy, sacred, consecrated, a holy thing, sacred things
- ΙΕΡΟΝ — sacred, holy, consecrated, a sacred place, a temple, temple
- ΙΕΡΟΣ — holy, sacred, consecrated, a holy thing, a sacred thing
- ΙΕΡΟΥ — of holy, of sacred, of a temple, of the temple, of the sanctuary
- ΙΕΡΟΥΣ — holy, sacred, consecrated, a holy thing, sacred things
- ΙΕΡΟΥΤΑ — sacred, holy, a sacred place, a holy place, of a sacred place, of a holy place
- ΙΕΡΩΝ — (of) holy, (of) sacred, (of) consecrated, (of) a holy thing, (of) sacred things, (of) holy places
- ΙΕΡΩΤΑΤΗΝ — most sacred, most holy, a most sacred, a most holy
- ΣΙΕΡΟΣ — holy, sacred, consecrated, a holy thing, a sacred thing
- ΤΗΝΙΕΡΑΝ — holy, sacred, consecrated, a holy (thing), a sacred (thing)
- ΤΟΝΙΕΡΟΝ — the sacred thing, the holy thing, the temple, the sanctuary, the sacred place, the holy place
- ΤΟΥΙΕΡΟΥ — of the holy, of the sacred, of the temple
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