ἱεράτευμα
hieráteuma · G2406 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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priesthood, to be a priest
The role of being a priest
Examples1 Peter 2:5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:9 But you are A CHOSEN PEOPLE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR GOD’S OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἅγιοςholy 1
- βασίλειοςkingly 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 2
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
- כְּהֻנָּה kᵉhunnâh · H3550 · priesthood
- Hebrew term for the priestly office or priesthood; direct translation equivalent used in LXX contexts where ἱεράτευμα appears in NT (1 Pet 2:5, 9) to describe the collective priestly body or order
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Priesthood, to be a priest53.86
- In 1 Peter 2:9, believers are told, “you are A CHOSEN PEOPLE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR GOD'S OWN POSSESSION,” naming this collective priestly status directly.
Word family 12 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἱερατευματος, τό (ἱερατεύω), (priesthood i. e.) a. the office of priest. b. the order or…
a. the office of priest.
b. the order or body of priests (see ἀδελφότης, αἰχμαλωσία, διασπορά, θεραπεία); so Christians are called, because they have access to God and offer not external but 'spiritual' (πνευματικά) sacrifices: 1 Pet 2:5; also βασίλειον ἱεράτευμα, 1 Pet 2:9 (after Ex 19:6, the Sept.), priests of kingly rank, i. e. exalted to a moral rank and freedom which exempts them from the control of everyone but God and Christ. (Ex 23:22, etc.; 2 Macc. 2:17); not found in secular authors.)
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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