◄ 2407. hierateuó ►
Lexicon
hierateuó: To serve as a priest, to perform priestly duties

Original Word: ἱερατεύω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: hierateuó
Pronunciation: hee-er-at-yoo'-o
Phonetic Spelling: (hee-er-at-yoo'-o)
KJV: execute the priest's office
NASB: performingpriestly service, priestly service
Word Origin: [prolongation from G2409 (ἱερεύς - priest)]

1. to be a priest, i.e. perform his functions

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
perform priestly service

Prolongation from hiereus; to be a priest, i.e. Perform his functions -- execute the priest's office.

see GREEK hiereus

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from hiereus
Definition
to be a priest
NASB Translation
performing...priestly service (1), priestly service (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2407: ἱερατεύω

ἱερατεύω; (from ἱεράομαι and the verbal adjective ἱερατος, though this adjective does not occur); to be priest, discharge the priest's office, be busied in sacred duties: Luke 1:8. (Josephus, Antiquities 3, 8, 1; Herodian, 5, 6, 6 (3 edition, Bekker); Pausanias, Heliodorus, Inscriptions (see Liddell and Scott); the Sept. for כִּהֵן.)

Forms and Transliterations
ιερατευειν ιερατεύειν ἱερατεύειν ιερατεύουσιν ιεράτευσαν ιερατεύσας ιερατεύσει ιεράτευσεν ιερατεύσουσί ιερατεύσωσί hierateuein hierateúein ierateuein
Links
Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts
Englishman's Concordance
Luke 1:8 V-PNA
GRK: ἐν τῷ ἱερατεύειν αὐτὸν ἐν
NAS: [that] while he was performing his priestly service before
KJV: he executed the priest's office before
INT: in the fulfilling the priestly service of him in

Strong's Greek 2407
1 Occurrence


ἱερατεύειν — 1 Occ.

2406
Top of Page
Top of Page