ἱερεύς

Ancient Greek

From ῐ̔ερός (hierós, “holy”) +‎ -εύς (-eús, suffix for person concerned). Compare Mycenaean Greek 𐀂𐀋𐀩𐀄 (i-je-re-u).

ῐ̔ερεύς • (hiereús) m (genitive ῐ̔ερέως); third declension

Third declension of ὁ ῐ̔ερεύς; τοῦ ῐ̔ερέως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῐ̔ερεύς ho hiereús	τὼ ῐ̔ερῆ tṑ hierê	οἱ ῐ̔ερῆς / ῐ̔ερεῖς hoi hierês / hiereîs
Genitive	τοῦ ῐ̔ερέως toû hieréōs	τοῖν ῐ̔ερέοιν toîn hieréoin	τῶν ῐ̔ερέων tôn hieréōn
Dative	τῷ ῐ̔ερεῖ tôi hiereî	τοῖν ῐ̔ερέοιν toîn hieréoin	τοῖς ῐ̔ερεῦσῐ(ν) toîs hiereûsi(n)
Accusative	τὸν ῐ̔ερέᾱ tòn hieréā	τὼ ῐ̔ερῆ tṑ hierê	τοὺς ῐ̔ερέᾱς toùs hieréās
Vocative	ῐ̔ερεῦ hiereû	ῐ̔ερῆ hierê	ῐ̔ερῆς / ῐ̔ερεῖς hierês / hiereîs
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Third declension of ῐ̔ερεύς; ῐ̔ερῆος (Epic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ῐ̔ερεύς hiereús	ῐ̔ερῆε hierêe	ῐ̔ερῆες hierêes
Genitive	ῐ̔ερῆος / ῐ̔ερέος hierêos / hieréos	ῐ̔ερήοιῐν hierḗoiin	ῐ̔ερήων hierḗōn
Dative	ῐ̔ερῆῐ̈ / ῐ̔ερέῐ̈ hierêï / hieréï	ῐ̔ερήοιῐν hierḗoiin	ῐ̔ερήεσσῐ(ν) / ῐ̔ερεῦσῐ(ν) hierḗessi(n) / hiereûsi(n)
Accusative	ῐ̔ερῆᾰ / ῐ̔ερέᾰ hierêa / hieréa	ῐ̔ερῆε hierêe	ῐ̔ερῆᾰς hierêas
Vocative	ῐ̔ερεῦ hiereû	ῐ̔ερῆε hierêe	ῐ̔ερῆες hierêes
Notes:	Dialects other than Attic are not well attested. Some forms may be based on conjecture. Use with caution.

ἱερεύς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
ἱερεύς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
ἱερεύς in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἱερεύς 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
ἱερεύς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἱερεύς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G2409 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- priest idem, page 640.

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