ἱερόν
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Neuter substantive of ἱερός (hierós, “holy”)
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /hi.e.rón/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /(h)i.eˈron/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /i.eˈron/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /i.eˈron/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /i.eˈron/
Noun
ἱερόν • (hierón) n (genitive ἱεροῦ); second declension
- holy place, temple, shrine, sanctuary
Inflection
Second declension of τὸ ἱερόν; τοῦ ἱεροῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | τὸ ἱερόν tò hierón | τὼ ἱερώ tṑ hierṓ | τᾰ̀ ἱερᾰ́ tà hierá | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ ἱεροῦ toû hieroû | τοῖν ἱεροῖν toîn hieroîn | τῶν ἱερῶν tôn hierôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ ἱερῷ tôi hierôi | τοῖν ἱεροῖν toîn hieroîn | τοῖς ἱεροῖς toîs hieroîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸ ἱερόν tò hierón | τὼ ἱερώ tṑ hierṓ | τᾰ̀ ἱερᾰ́ tà hierá | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἱερόν hierón | ἱερώ hierṓ | ἱερᾰ́ hierá | ||||||||||
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See also
- νᾱός (nāós)
Adjective
ῑ̔ερόν • (hīerón)
- inflection of ἱερός (hierós):
- masculine accusative singular
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
References
- “ἱερός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἱερόν”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἱερόν 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
- G2411 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.
- sanctuary idem, page 733.
- shrine idem, page 771.
- temple idem, page 860.