ἐφημερία
ephēmería · G2183 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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work group, division
A class or division of persons who perform certain daily duties (in the one NT occurrence, a reference to a group of priests performing certain functions in the Temple at Jerusalem)
ExamplesLuke 1:5 In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah, of the division of Abijah; and he had a wife from the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elizabeth.
Luke 1:8 Now it happened that while he was performing his priestly service before God in the appointed order of his division,
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἈβιάAbijah 1
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἱερεύςpriest 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐκfrom 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τάξιςorder, rank 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- מַחֲלֹקֶת machălôqeth · H4256 · division, allotment, portion
- מַחֲלֹקֶת (machălôqeth, H4256) (מַחֲלֹקֶת, 'division, course') is the Hebrew source term that ἐφημερία (ephēmería, G2183) directly translates in LXX contexts describing the priestly rotation system, making them exact cross-linguistic equivalents for the technical temple-service scheduling concept.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Work group, division11.47
- In Luke 1:8, of Zacharias it is written, “Now it happened that while he was performing his priestly service before God in the appointed order of his division,” naming this rotating group of priests.
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐφημερίας, ἡ (efeemerios], ἐφημεριον, by day, lasting or acting for a day, daily), a word…
1. a service limited to a stated series of days (cf. German Tagdienst,Wochendienst); so used of the service of the priests and Levites: Neh 13:30; 1 Chr 25:8; 2 Chr 13:10, etc.
2. "the class or course itself of priests who for a week at a time performed the duties of the priestly office" (German Wöchnerzunft): 1 Chr 23:6; 1 Chr 28:13, etc.; 1 Esdr. 1:2, 15; so twice in the N. T.: Lk 1:5, Lk 1:8. For David divided the priests into twenty-four classes, each of which in its turn discharged the duties of the office for an entire week from sabbath to sabbath, 1 Chr 24:4; 2 Chr 8:14; Neh 12:24; these classes Josephus calls πατριαί and ἐφημεριδες, Antiquities 7, 14, 7; de vita sua1; Suidas, ἐφημερία. ἡ πατριά λέγεται δέ καί ἡ τῆς ἡμέρας λειτουργία. Cf. Fritzsche, commentary on 3 Esdras, p. 12. (BB. DD. under the word Priests; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, book ii., chapter iii.)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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