ΙΕΡΕΑ, ιερεα
IEREA, ierea
Sounds Like: hee-eh-REH-ah
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 often be a person designated to mediate between humans and the divine, offering sacrifices and leading worship. It is used in sentences to refer to a specific individual or group holding this religious office.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G2409 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Numbers — 17:2, 19:3, 26:1
- 1 Chronicles — 16:39
- Sirach — 7:31
- Jeremiah — 36:26, 44:3
- Lamentations — 2:6, 2:20
- Haggai — 1:1, 2:2
- Zechariah — 3:1
- Hebrews — 7:11, 10:21
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 10:180
- Book 3 — 8:190
- Book 8 — 1:9, 1:10, 8:229
- Book 9 — 1:6, 7:147
- Book 10 — 1:18, 8:149
- Book 11 — 8:324
- Book 12 — 2:97
- Book 15 — 2:22
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Leviticus — 2:8, 5:8, 5:12, 5:18, 12:6, 13:2, 13:7, 13:9, 13:16, 14:2, 14:23, 14:36, 15:29, 17:5, 23:10
- Numbers — 5:15, 6:10, 16:37, 19:3, 26:1, 31:12, 32:2, 32:28, 35:28
- Deuteronomy — 26:3
- Joshua — 21:1
- Judges — 17:5, 17:10, 17:12, 17:13, 18:4, 18:19, 18:24, 18:27
- 1 Samuel — 2:35, 14:19, 21:1, 22:9, 23:9, 30:7
- 1 Kings — 1:19, 1:25, 1:26, 1:32, 1:44, 2:27, 2:35
- 2 Kings — 11:9, 11:18, 12:7, 16:10, 22:4, 25:18
- 1 Chronicles — 16:39
- 2 Chronicles — 13:9, 23:17, 24:20, 34:9
- Ezra (Alpha) — 8:8
- Sirach — 7:31
- Jeremiah — 21:1, 36:25, 36:26, 44:3, 52:24
- Lamentations — 2:6, 2:20
- Baruch — 1:7
- Ezekiel — 1:2
- Haggai — 1:1, 2:2
- Zechariah — 3:1
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, 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
- 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
- ΙΕΡΕΥ — priest, a 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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