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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 ἐκ τῶν ἱερέων οἱ ἐμποιούμενοι ἱερωσύνησ καὶ οὐχ εὑρέθησαν. υἱοὶ Ὀβδία, υἱοὶ Ἀκβώσ, υἱοὶ Ἰαδδοὺ τοῦ λαβόντοσ Αὐγίαν γυναῖκα τῶν θυγατέρων Φαηζελδαίου, καὶ ἐκλήθη ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 5:38)
  • Φινεὲσ ὁ πατὴρ ἡμῶν ἐν τῷ ζηλῶσαι ζῆλον ἔλαβε διαθήκην ἱερωσύνησ αἰωνίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 2:54)
  • καὶ ἤνεγκαν τὰ ἱμάτια τῆσ ἱερωσύνησ καὶ τὰ πρωτογενήματα καὶ τὰσ δεκάτασ καὶ ἤγειραν τοὺσ ναζιραίουσ, οἳ ἐπλήρωσαν τὰσ ἡμέρασ, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 3:49)
  • 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)
  • οὐδὲ καταισχυνῶ σε, φιλόσοφε λόγε, οὐδὲ ἐξαρνήσομαί σε, ἱερωσύνη τιμία καὶ νομοθεσίασ ἐπιστήμη. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 5:34)
  • καὶ δίκην οὔτε διδόασιν οὔτε λαμβάνουσιν, ἵνα μὴ πρόφασισ ᾖ τοῦ ἀπιέναι, πλὴν περὶ κλήρου καὶ ἐπικλήρου, κἄν τινι κατὰ τὸ γένοσ ἱερωσύνη γένηται. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 42 5:2)
  • "ἦν δὲ τῇ Κάμμῃ καταφυγὴ καὶ παραμυθία τοῦ πάθουσ ἱερωσύνη πατρῷοσ Ἀρτέμιδοσ· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 22 1:2)
  • Ψήφισμα περὶ Πλαταιέων Ἱπποκράτησ εἶπεν, Πλαταιέασ εἶναι Ἀθηναίουσ ἀπὸ τῆσδε τῆσ ἡμέρασ, ἐπιτίμουσ καθάπερ οἱ ἄλλοι Ἀθηναῖοι, καὶ μετεῖναι αὐτοῖσ ὧνπερ Ἀθηναίοισ μέτεστι πάντων, καὶ ἱερῶν καὶ ὁσίων, πλὴν εἴ τισ ἱερωσύνη ἢ τελετή ἐστιν ἐκ γένουσ, μηδὲ τῶν ἐννέα ἀρχόντων, τοῖσ δ’ ἐκ τούτων. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 151:4)
  • τρίτη δ’ ἐστὶν ἱερωσύνη Διὸσ Ἀσβαμαίου λειπομένη ταύτησ, ἀξιόλογοσ δ’ ὅμωσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 2 8:1)

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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