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ἱερωσύνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱερωσύνη

Structure: ἱερωσυν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: i(ereu/s

Sense

  1. the office of priest, priesthood

Declension

First 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 ἔφαγον καὶ ἔπιον ἐναντίον τοῦ Κυρίου ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ μετὰ χαρᾶσ καὶ ἐβασίλευσαν ἐκ δευτέρου τὸν Σαλωμὼν υἱὸν Δαυὶδ καὶ ἔχρισαν αὐτὸν τῷ Κυρίῳ εἰσ βασιλέα καὶ Σαδὼκ εἰσ ἱερωσύνην. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 29:22)
  • καὶ ἀπέστειλεν αὐτὸν καὶ Ἄλκιμον τὸν ἀσεβῆ, καὶ ἔστησεν αὐτῷ τὴν ἱερωσύνην καὶ ἐνετείλατο αὐτῷ ποιῆσαι τὴν ἐκδίκησιν ἐν τοῖσ υἱοῖσ Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 7:9)
  • εἰ δὲ φαῖεν, ὅτι πόλεωσ εἰήν τῆσ Ιἑροσολύμων, καὶ αὐτοὺσ ἐξ ἐκείνων λέγειν ὑπάρχειν τοὺσ τέσσαρασ, εἰ δὲ διὰ τὴν ἐμπειρίαν τῶν νόμων, μηδ’ αὐτοὺσ ἀγνοεῖν ἔθη τὰ πάτρια φάσκειν, εἰ δ’ αὖ διὰ τὴν ἱερωσύνην λέγοιεν ἀγαπᾶν με, καὶ αὐτῶν ἀποκρίνεσθαι δύο ἱερεῖσ ὑπάρχειν. (Flavius Josephus, 237:2)
  • ἐπισκόπουσ καὶ φύλακασ, οὕτω προσέσχε τοῖσ πατρῴοισ ἔθεσι καὶ κατενόησε τὴν τῶν παλαιῶν περὶ τὸ θεῖον εὐλάβειαν ὥστε τιμήν τινα δοκοῦσαν εἶναι καὶ ζηλουμένην ἄλλωσ ἕνεκα δόξησ τὴν ἱερωσύνην τῶν ἀκροτάτων μίαν ἀποφῆναι τεχνῶν, καὶ μαρτυρῆσαι τοῖσ φιλοσόφοισ, ὅσοι τὴν εὐσέβειαν ὡρίσαντο θεραπείασ θεῶν ἐπιστήμην εἶναι. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 3 2:1)
  • "μισογύνου γὰρ Ἡρακλέουσ ἱερόν ἐστιν ἐν τῇ Φωκίδι, καὶ νομίζεται τὸν ἱερώμενον ἐν τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ γυναικὶ μὴ ὁμιλεῖν διὸ καὶ πρεσβύτασ ἐπιεικῶσ ἱερεῖσ ἀπθδείκνύθυσι, πλὴν ἔμπροσθεν νεανίασ οὐ πονηρὸσ φιλότιμοσ, ἐρῶν παιδίσκησ, ἔλαβε τὴν ἱερωσύνην καὶ τὸ πρῶτον ἦν ἐγκρατὴσ ἑαυτοῦ καὶ ἔφευγε τὴν ἄνθρωπον ἀναπαυομένῳ δ’, αὐτῷ ποτε μετὰ πότον καὶ χορείαν προσπεσοῦσα διεπράξατο. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 202)

Synonyms

  1. the office of priest

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

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