noun · feminine
hierōsunas
Strong’sG2420
the priestly office
stem hierōsun-3 times in the New Testament2 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.
ἱερωσύνη, -ης, ἡ
(< ἱερός), [in LXX: I Ch 29:22 (כּהן), I Es 5:38, Si 45:24, I Mac 2:54 3:49 7:9, 21, IV Mac 5:35 7:6*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2420 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhee-er-o-soo'-nay
sacredness, i.e. (by implication) the priestly office
Fromfrom G2413;
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
in Attic dialect Inscrr. ἱερεωσύνη Refs 5th c.BC+: ἡ:— priesthood, Refs 5th c.BC+: in plural, priestly services, sacrifices, Refs 5th 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 | hierōsunas | hierōsunais |
| object accusative | hierōsunan1×ἱερωσύνην | hierōsunain |
| direct address vocative | hierōsunar | hierōsunair |
| of, belonging to genitive | hierōsunau2×ἱερωσύνης | hierōsunaiu |
| to, for dative | hierōsuna | hierōsunai |
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
hierōsuna 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
hierōsunan“priesthood”objectaccusative singular1×
Hebrews 7:24… eis ton aiōnon aparabatan echatō tan hierōsunan;… lives forever, He has a permanent priesthood.
hierōsunau“priesthood”of, belonging togenitive singular2×
Hebrews 7:11… men oun teleiōsias dia tau Levitikau hierōsunau ate, tos laos gar epi autau …… have been attained through the Levitical priesthood ( for on this basis the people …
Hebrews 7:12metatithorōntau gar tau hierōsunau ek anankau kai nomou metathesias genotō.For when the priesthood is changed, the law must be …