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ἱεροκῆρυξ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱεροκῆρυξ ἱεροκῆρυκος

Structure: ἱεροκηρυκ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the herald at a sacrifice

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • "καὶ κατακλιθέντεσ ἐπανίστανται εἰσ γόνατα τοῦ ἱεροκήρυκοσ τὰσ πατρίουσ εὐχὰσ καταλέγοντοσ συσπένδοντεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 322)
  • βούλομαι δ’ ὑμῖν καὶ τὸν ἱεροκήρυκα καλέσαι, ὃσ ὑπηρετεῖ τῇ τοῦ βασιλέωσ γυναικί, ὅταν ἐξορκοῖ τὰσ γεραρὰσ <τὰσ> ἐν κανοῖσ πρὸσ τῷ βωμῷ, πρὶν ἅπτεσθαι τῶν ἱερῶν, ἵνα καὶ τοῦ ὁρ́κου καὶ τῶν λεγομένων ἀκούσητε, ὅσα οἱο͂́ν τ’ ἐστὶν ἀκούειν, καὶ εἰδῆτε ὡσ σεμνὰ καὶ ἅγια καὶ ἀρχαῖα τὰ νόμιμά ἐστιν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 118:1)
  • [διὸ] καὶ τοὺσ ἱεροκήρυκασ καὶ θύτασ καὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ, οἳ τὰσ κατευχὰσ ἐποιοῦντο, παρῃτήσατο, τῶν δὲ παραγενομένων ἕνα Ἐλισαῖον ὄνομα ὄντα ἱερέα παρεκάλεσεν ὁ βασιλεὺσ ποιήσασθαι κατευχάσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 12 112:2)

Synonyms

  1. the herald at a sacrifice

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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