ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΙ, ἀρχιερει
ARCHIEREI, archierei
Sounds Like: ar-khee-eh-REH-ee
Translations: to the high priest, a high priest, high priest
From the root: ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a high priest, the chief priest in ancient Israel. It is a compound word formed from 'ἀρχή' (archē), meaning 'first' or 'chief', and 'ἱερεύς' (hiereus), meaning 'priest'. In this inflected form, it indicates the dative case, meaning 'to the high priest' or 'for the high priest', often indicating the recipient of an action or the object of a preposition.
Inflection: Singular, Dative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G0749 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:35
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 40:5
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 7:151
- Book 4 — 7:172
- Book 5 — 1:15, 10:338
- Book 6 — 12:261
- Book 12 — 2:16, 2:39, 2:40, 2:42, 2:45, 2:117, 10:413
- Book 13 — 2:51, 2:54, 5:167, 7:83
- Book 14 — 10:212, 12:306
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book One — 8:12
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Ezra (Alpha) — 9:49
- 1 Maccabees — 10:32, 13:36, 14:23, 15:21, 15:24
- 2 Maccabees — 3:4, 3:33
- 3 Maccabees — 1:11
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
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
- ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣΙ — to high priests, for high priests, with high priests, high priests
- ἈΡΧΙΕΡΕΩΣ — (of) high priest, (of) chief priest
- 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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