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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀρχι- (arkhi-, “chief”) + ἱερεύς (hiereús, “priest”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ar.kʰi.e.rěu̯s/ → /ar.çi.eˈreɸs/ → /ar.çi.eˈrefs/
Noun
ἀρχιερεύς • (arkhiereús) m (genitive ἀρχιερέως); third declension
- chief priest, high priest
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἀρχιερεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀρχιερεύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀρχιερεύς 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
- ἀρχιερεύς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G749 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.