2001 Translation

IEREŌN, iereōn

Sounds Like: hee-eh-REH-ohn

Translations: of priests

From the root: ΙΕΡΕΥΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word is the genitive plural form of the noun 'ἱερεύς' (hiereus), meaning 'priest'. It is used to indicate possession or origin, often translated as 'of priests' or 'belonging to priests'. For example, one might speak of 'the garments of priests' or 'the lineage of priests'.

Inflection: Plural, Genitive, Masculine

Strong’s number: G2409 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Aristeas

• Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:53, 1:87, 1:92

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Chronicles — 18:17
• 2 Esdras — 10:18, 17:70, 21:10, 22:7, 22:35, 23:5
• 1 Maccabees — 7:33, 14:28, 14:44, 14:47
• Isaiah — 37:2
• Jeremiah — 1:1, 8:1, 19:1, 35:1
• Zephaniah — 1:4
• Hebrews — 7:14

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 7:31, 7:33, 7:35, 15:101, 26:236, 26:238, 26:241, 28:261, 31:279, 22:186, 23:188
• Book Two — 22:186, 23:188

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 4:119, 8:161
• Book 2 — 6:91, 7:190
• Book 3 — 6:136, 6:148, 7:158, 9:227, 9:236, 11:258, 11:270, 12:276, 12:278, 15:321
• Book 4 — 3:54, 4:75, 8:248
• Book 5 — 1:23, 1:27
• Book 6 — 12:260, 12:262, 12:268, 12:269
• Book 7 — 4:85, 14:367, 14:378, 14:380
• Book 8 — 4:106, 6:169, 10:242, 11:283
• Book 9 — 1:4, 6:134, 6:135, 7:147, 10:224, 13:274
• Book 10 — 1:12, 4:71, 4:72
• Book 11 — 3:71, 4:83, 5:134, 5:136, 5:140, 5:146, 5:151, 8:312, 8:327, 8:329
• Book 12 — 10:406
• Book 13 — 5:166
• Book 14 — 2:20, 2:25, 3:41
• Book 15 — 11:421
• Book 18 — 3:71, 3:75, 3:79, 4:91, 4:93
• Book 20 — 8:181, 9:206, 9:207, 10:247, 10:249

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 1:26, 2:6, 8:10
• Book Three — 8:13
• Book Four — 9:97
• Book Five — 5:43, 5:44, 5:45
• Book Six — 5:8, 6:3, 8:14, 8:17

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 116:3, 117:1

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 1:1, 1:2, 7:29

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 16:4

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 47:22, 47:26
• Leviticus — 6:18, 6:36, 13:2, 16:20, 16:24, 16:33
• Deuteronomy — 17:18, 18:3, 19:17
• Joshua — 3:13, 3:15, 4:9, 21:19, 21:20
• 1 Samuel — 22:19
• 2 Kings — 17:28, 19:2
• 1 Chronicles — 9:10, 9:30, 18:17, 24:6, 24:31, 28:13, 28:21
• 2 Chronicles — 4:9, 8:14, 8:15, 19:8, 23:4, 23:18, 26:19, 30:24, 31:2, 31:4, 31:9, 31:15, 31:17, 34:5
• Ezra (Alpha) — 1:47, 5:38, 5:60, 8:5, 8:10, 8:42, 8:54, 8:58, 8:92, 9:18
• Ezra (Beta) — 2:61, 2:69, 3:12, 6:9, 7:7, 7:13, 7:16, 8:24, 8:29, 10:18
• Nehemiah — 6:14, 7:63, 7:70, 7:72, 11:10, 12:7, 12:35, 13:5
• 1 Maccabees — 7:33, 11:23, 14:28, 14:44, 14:47
• 2 Maccabees — 1:10, 1:13, 1:15, 1:20, 14:31
• 3 Maccabees — 1:16, 3:21
• 4 Maccabees — 4:9
• Sirach — 50:12
• Isaiah — 37:2
• Jeremiah — 1:1, 8:1, 19:1, 35:1, 35:5, 38:14
• Lamentations — 4:13, 4:16
• Ezekiel — 42:14, 46:19, 48:13
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 14:14, 14:19
• Zephaniah — 1:4

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Acts — 6:7
• Hebrews — 7:14

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
• ΙΕΡΕΥΣ — priest, a priest
• ΙΕΡΕΥΣΙ — (to) priests, (to) a priest
• ΙΕΡΕΥΣΙΝ — to priests, for priests
• ΙΕΡΕΩ — of a priest, of the priest, 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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