ΙΕΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΙΣ, ιερογραμματεις
IEROGRAMMATEIS, ierogrammateis
Sounds Like: hee-eh-roh-gram-ma-TAYSS
Translations: sacred scribes, temple scribes, priestly scribes
From the root: ΙΕΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΥΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is a compound noun, formed from 'ἱερός' (hieros), meaning 'sacred' or 'holy', and 'γραμματεύς' (grammateus), meaning 'scribe' or 'secretary'. It refers to scribes or officials associated with sacred matters, often temple scribes or those responsible for religious writings and records. They would have been involved in the administration and interpretation of religious law and traditions.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative or Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G2410 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 2 — 10:243
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΙΕΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΥΣ.
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.
- ΙΕΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΑ — sacred scribe, a sacred scribe, temple scribe, hierogrammateus
- ΙΕΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΥΣ — sacred scribe, temple scribe, hierogrammateus
- ΙΕΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΥΣΙ — (to) sacred scribes, (to) temple scribes, (to) hierogrammateis
- ΙΕΡΟΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΩΝ — (of) sacred scribes, (of) temple scribes, (of) hierogrammateis
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