noun · feminine
hierateias
Strong’sG2405
the duty of a priest
stem hieratei-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἱερατεία (WH, -ία), -ας, ἡ
(< ἱερατεύω), [in LXX for כּהן pi., כְּהֻנָּה (Ex 29:9, al.), exc. Ho 3:4 (אֵפוֹד)*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2405 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhee-er-at-i'-ah
priestliness, i.e. the sacerdotal function
Fromfrom G2407;
King Jamesoffice of the priesthood, priest's office.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
priesthood, NT+4th c.BC+, etc.: Ionic dialect ἱρητήη Refs 5th c.BC+; later ἱερητείη and ἱέρᾱτ-α Refs 4th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | hierateias | hierateiais |
| object accusative | hierateian1×ἱερατείαν | hierateiain |
| direct address vocative | hierateiar | hierateiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | hierateiau1×ἱερατείας | hierateiaiu |
| to, for dative | hierateia | hierateiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
hierateia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
hierateian“priestly office”objectaccusative singular1×
Hebrews 7:5“priestly office”… men ek toiu huioiu Leviou tan hierateian labarōntois entolan echalō apodekatarō ton laon …Now the law commands the sons of Levi who become priests to collect a tenth from the people — that is …
hierateiau“priesthood”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 1:9kata tem ethem tau hierateiau lanchanata teu thumiara eisercharantos eis ton …… according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the temple of the …