ἀρχιερεύς
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- ἀρχείρευς (arkheíreus) – Aeolic
- ἀρχιέρεως (arkhiéreōs) – Ionic
- ἀρχίρευς (arkhíreus)
Etymology
From ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “chief”) + ἱερεύς (hiereús, “priest”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ar.kʰi.e.rěu̯s/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ar.kʰi.eˈrews/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ar.çi.eˈreɸs/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ar.çi.eˈrefs/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ar.çi.eˈrefs/
Noun
ἀρχιερεύς • (arkhiereús) m (genitive ἀρχιερέως); third declension
- chief priest, high priest
Inflection
Third declension of ὁ ἀρχιερεύς; τοῦ ἀρχιερέως (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ ἀρχιερεύς ho arkhiereús | τὼ ἀρχιερῆ tṑ arkhierê | οἱ ἀρχιερῆς / ἀρχιερεῖς hoi arkhierês / arkhiereîs | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἀρχιερέως toû arkhieréōs | τοῖν ἀρχιερέοιν toîn arkhieréoin | τῶν ἀρχιερέων tôn arkhieréōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἀρχιερεῖ tôi arkhiereî | τοῖν ἀρχιερέοιν toîn arkhieréoin | τοῖς ἀρχιερεῦσῐ / ἀρχιερεῦσῐν toîs arkhiereûsi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν ἀρχιερέᾱ tòn arkhieréā | τὼ ἀρχιερῆ tṑ arkhierê | τοὺς ἀρχιερέᾱς toùs arkhieréās | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἀρχιερεῦ arkhiereû | ἀρχιερῆ arkhierê | ἀρχιερῆς / ἀρχιερεῖς arkhierês / arkhiereîs | ||||||||||
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Descendants
- → Coptic: ⲁⲣⲭⲓⲉⲣⲉⲩⲥ (arkhiereus)
- → Gothic: 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌲𐌿𐌳𐌾𐌰 (ufargudja) (calque) (uncertain)
- → Russian: архиерей (arxijerej)
- → Yup'ik: allgiliyaq
Further reading
- “ἀρχιερεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀρχιερεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀρχιερεύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἀρχιερεύς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2023)
- G749 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- pontifex idem, page 626.