ΙΕΡΕΥ, ιερευ
IEREU, iereu
Sounds Like: hee-eh-REH-oo
Translations: priest, a priest
From the root: ΙΕΡΕΥΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a priest, a person who performs religious rites and sacrifices. In ancient contexts, this would typically be someone who mediates between God or gods and people, offering sacrifices and leading worship. It is used to describe both Jewish priests and pagan priests.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G2409 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- 4 Maccabees — 7:6
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 4 Maccabees — 7:6
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΙΕΡΕΥΣ.
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.
- ΕΡΕΑ — priests, the priests
- ἸΡΕΩΣ — of a priest, of priest
- ΙΕΡΑΙΑ — priest, a priest
- ΙΕΡΕΑ — priest, a priest
- ΙΕΡΕΑΝ — priest, a priest
- ΙΕΡΕΑΣ — priests, the priests
- ΙΕΡΕΙ — to a priest, to the priest, a priest, the priest, priests, the priests, O priests
- ΙΕΡΕΙΣ — priests
- ΙΕΡΕΟΥ — of a priest, of the priest
- ΙΕΡΕΥΣ — priest, a priest
- ΙΕΡΕΥΣΙ — (to) priests, (to) a priest
- ΙΕΡΕΥΣΙΝ — to priests, for priests
- ΙΕΡΕΩ — of a priest, of the priest, of priests
- ΙΕΡΕΩΝ — of priests
- ΙΕΡΕΩΣ — of a priest, of the priest, priest, a priest
- ΙΕΡΙΣ — priest, a priest
- ΙΕΩΝ — of priests, of the priests
- ΙΡΕΙΣ — priests, the priests
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