2001 Translation

IEREUS, iereus

Sounds Like: ee-eh-REH-oos

Translations: priest, a priest

From the root: ΙΕΡΕΥΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a priest, a person authorized to perform sacred rites of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and God or gods. In ancient contexts, priests were often responsible for sacrifices, rituals, and interpreting divine will. It is typically used to refer to a male religious official.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G2409 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 7:6

Codex Sinaiticus

• Leviticus — 21:10, 22:11
• Numbers — 6:17, 19:6, 19:7
• 2 Esdras — 10:10, 10:16, 13:1, 17:65, 18:2, 18:4, 18:9, 20:39, 22:26, 23:4
• Esther — 10:3l
• Judith — 4:6, 4:8, 4:14, 15:8
• 1 Maccabees — 2:1, 7:14, 14:29
• 4 Maccabees — 5:4, 17:9
• Psalms — 109:4
• Sirach — 50:1
• Isaiah — 24:2, 28:7
• Jeremiah — 14:18, 20:1, 23:11, 23:33
• Haggai — 1:12, 2:4
• Zechariah — 3:8, 6:13
• Luke — 1:5, 10:31
• Acts of the Apostles — 14:13
• Hebrews — 5:6, 7:1, 7:3, 7:15, 7:17, 7:21, 8:4, 10:11
• Epistle of Barnabas — 7:6

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 10:54, 18:123, 26:250, 28:265

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 3 — 7:152, 7:155, 9:231, 10:257
• Book 4 — 2:34
• Book 7 — 4:81, 12:315
• Book 8 — 8:228, 12:296
• Book 9 — 7:144, 8:164
• Book 10 — 11:265
• Book 11 — 5:121
• Book 12 — 2:108, 6:265
• Book 14 — 7:106
• Book 15 — 9:320, 11:420

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 1:3
• Book Two — 8:15, 15:13
• Book Three — 8:13
• Book Five — 13:6

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 19:4, 32:6, 33:1, 33:2, 34:2, 36:1, 63:3, 83:2, 83:3, 86:3, 113:5, 115:3, 116:3, 118:2, 127:3

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 14:18
• Exodus — 18:1, 29:30
• Leviticus — 1:13, 1:15, 1:17, 2:2, 2:9, 2:16, 3:11, 3:16, 4:5, 4:6, 4:7, 4:10, 4:16, 4:17, 4:18, 4:20, 4:25, 4:26, 4:30, 4:31, 4:34, 4:35, 5:6, 5:8, 5:10, 5:12, 5:13, 5:16, 5:18, 6:7, 6:10, 6:12, 6:22, 6:26, 6:35, 6:37, 6:38, 7:21, 12:7, 12:8, 13:3, 13:4, 13:5, 13:6, 13:8, 13:10, 13:11, 13:13, 13:15, 13:17, 13:20, 13:21, 13:22, 13:23, 13:25, 13:26, 13:27, 13:28, 13:30, 13:31, 13:32, 13:33, 13:34, 13:36, 13:37, 13:39, 13:43, 13:44, 13:50, 13:51, 13:53, 13:54, 13:55, 13:56, 14:3, 14:4, 14:5, 14:11, 14:12, 14:14, 14:15, 14:17, 14:18, 14:19, 14:20, 14:24, 14:25, 14:26, 14:27, 14:28, 14:29, 14:31, 14:36, 14:38, 14:39, 14:40, 14:44, 14:48, 15:15, 15:30, 16:32, 17:6, 19:22, 21:10, 22:11, 23:11, 23:20, 27:8, 27:12, 27:14, 27:18, 27:23
• Numbers — 5:16, 5:17, 5:18, 5:19, 5:21, 5:23, 5:25, 5:26, 5:30, 6:11, 6:16, 6:17, 6:19, 6:20, 15:25, 15:28, 19:6, 19:7, 26:3, 31:13, 31:21, 31:26, 31:31, 31:51, 31:54, 33:38, 34:17, 35:25, 35:28, 35:32
• Deuteronomy — 20:2, 26:4
• Joshua — 14:1, 19:51, 22:30, 22:31, 22:32
• Judges — 18:6, 18:18
• 1 Samuel — 1:9, 1:12, 2:14, 14:3, 14:36, 21:4, 21:6, 21:9
• 2 Samuel — 20:26
• 1 Kings — 1:8, 1:34, 1:38, 1:39, 1:45, 2:22, 13:33
• 2 Kings — 11:10, 11:15, 11:18, 12:2, 12:9, 12:10, 16:11, 16:16, 22:8, 22:10, 22:14, 23:24
• 1 Chronicles — 24:6, 27:5
• 2 Chronicles — 19:11, 23:8, 23:14, 23:18, 24:12, 26:17, 26:20, 31:10, 34:14, 34:18, 35:19
• Ezra (Alpha) — 5:40, 8:19, 9:16, 9:42
• Ezra (Beta) — 2:63, 7:21, 10:10, 10:16
• Nehemiah — 3:1, 7:65, 8:2, 8:9, 10:38, 12:26, 13:4
• Esther — 10:3
• Judith — 4:6, 4:8, 4:14, 15:8
• 1 Maccabees — 2:1, 7:14
• 4 Maccabees — 5:4, 17:9
• Psalms — 109:4
• Sirach — 50:1
• Isaiah — 24:2, 28:7
• Jeremiah — 14:18, 20:1, 23:11, 23:33
• Ezekiel — 44:21, 45:19
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 14:2
• Hosea — 4:4, 4:9
• Amos — 7:10
• Haggai — 1:12, 2:4
• Zechariah — 3:8, 6:13

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 1:5, 10:31
• Acts — 14:13
• Hebrews — 5:6, 7:1, 7:3, 7:15, 7:17, 7:21, 8:4, 10:11

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
• ΙΕΡΕΥ — 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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