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ἱεροκῆρυξ?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: hierokēryx

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 ὁρ´κου καὶ τῶν λεγομένων ἀκούσητε, ὅσα οἱό῀ν 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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