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 / ῐ̔ερεῦσῐν 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 / ῐ̔ερήεσσῐν / ῐ̔ερεῦσῐ / ῐ̔ερεῦσῐν 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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