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Strong's #2407 - ἱερατεύω

Transliteration

hierateúō

Phonetics

hee-er-at-yoo'-o

Origin

prolongation from (2409)

Parts of Speech

Verb

TDNT

3:248,349

Definition

Thayer's

to be a priest, discharge the office of a priest, to be busied in sacred duties

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 3547 ‑ כָּהַן (kaw‑han');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

KJV (1)

Luke

NAS (3)

Luke

HCS (1)

Luke

BSB (1)

Luke

ESV (1)

Luke

WEB (1)

Luke

Verse Results

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

ἱερᾱτ-εύω, Ion. ἱερητ- GDI 5394 (later also in Northern Greece, Boeot., IG 7.3097 (perh. i B.C.); Phoc., ib. 9(1).32.40 (Stiris, ii B.C.), al.; Thess., ib. 9(2).333 (i A.D.), cf. SIG 2588.110 (Delos, ii B.C.); Lesb. ἰρητεύω IG 12(2).527.45): —

I to be priest or priestess, θεῶν OGI 90.51 (Rosetta, ii B.C.); Καίσαρος prob. ib.767.4 (Cyrene); τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ Σωτῆρος IG 7.2727 (Acraeph., i B.C.); τᾷ Ἀθάνᾳ ib.9(1).65 (Daulis), cf. Hdn. 5.6.3: abs., SIG 1044.19 (Halic., iv/iii B.C.), al., LXX Exodus 28:1, Luke 1:8 : —

also ἱερᾱτ-εύομαι, IGRom. 4.539 (Cotiaeum).

II Pass., to be made holy, Zos.Alch.p.108B.

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

ἱερατεύω

(cl. = ἱεράομαι ),

[in LXX chiefly for H3547 pi.;]

to be a priest, officiate as a priest: Luke 1:8 (the word is freq. in Inscr.; v. LS, s.v.; Deiss., BS, 215; LAE, 70; Cremer, 734).†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

Early evidence for this word from the inscrr. is afforded by OGIS90.51 (Rosetta stone—B.C. 196) τῶν θεῶν ὧν ἱερατεύσουσιν, Magn 178.6 (ii/B.C.) ἱέραιαν Ἀρτέμιδος Λευκοφρυηνῆς ἱερατεύσασαν, Priene177 (ii/B.C.) Ἀθηνόπολις Κυδίμου ἱερητεύων (for the form cf. Thumb Hellen. p. 68) Διονύσωι, etc. The writers of the LXX and Luke (1.8) were, therefore, only applying to the rites of the Jewish religion a term already current in the pagan world : see further Deissmann BS p. 2 1 5 f., Anz Subsidia, p. 370 f., Thieme, p. 15, Rouffiac Recherches, p. 66 f., and Poland Vereinswesen, p. 347 n.2. The only example we can cite from the papyri is P Giss I, 11.10 (A.D. 118) ὥστε εἱερατεύειν τοῦ χειρεισμοῦ τῶν κυβερνητ (ῶν), where see the editor’s note : the gen., which is similar to that after ἐπιμελοῦμαι, κήδομαι, ἐπιστατῶ, etc., is sometimes varied by the dat. commodi as in Priene 177 (supra).

List of Word Forms

ιερατευειν ιερατεύειν ἱερατεύειν ιερατεύουσιν ιεράτευσαν ιερατεύσας ιερατεύσει ιεράτευσεν ιερατεύσουσί ιερατεύσωσί hierateuein hierateúein ierateuein

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