noun · neuter
hierateumem
Strong’sG2406
the act or office of priesthood
stem hierateum-2 times in the New Testament1 of 6 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.
† ἱεράτευμα, -τος, τό
(< ἱερατεύω), [in LXX: βασίλειον ἱ., Ex 19:6 (כֹּהֲנִים מַמְלֶכֶת) 23:22, II Mac 2:17*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2406 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhee-er-at'-yoo-mah
the priestly fraternity, i.e. sacerdotal order (figuratively)
Fromfrom G2407;
King Jamespriesthood.
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, LXX+NT
2 body of priests, Refs 6th c.AD+
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 or object direct | hierateumem1×ἱεράτευμα | hierateumeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | hierateumeu | hierateumeiu |
| to, for dative | hierateume | hierateumei |
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
hierateume 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
hierateumem“priesthood”subject or objectdirect singular1×
1 Peter 2:9Vis de genem eklektem, basileiem hierateumem, ethnem hagiem, laos eis peripoiēsian, hopōs …… are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for …
hierateumem1×
1 Peter 2:5… lithois zōarōntois oikodomovō oikos pneumatikos eis hierateumem hagiem, anaferara pneumatikain thusiain euprosdektain theo …… spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God …