ἱερεύς

Ancient Greek

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

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

Third declension of ὁ ῐ̔ερεύς; τοῦ ῐ̔ερέως (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ ῐ̔ερεύς ho hĭereús	τὼ ῐ̔ερῆ tṑ hĭerê	οἱ ῐ̔ερῆς / ῐ̔ερεῖς hoi hĭerês / hĭereîs
Genitive	τοῦ ῐ̔ερέως toû hĭeréōs	τοῖν ῐ̔ερέοιν toîn hĭeréoin	τῶν ῐ̔ερέων tôn hĭeréōn
Dative	τῷ ῐ̔ερεῖ tōî hĭereî	τοῖν ῐ̔ερέοιν toîn hĭeréoin	τοῖς ῐ̔ερεῦσῐ / ῐ̔ερεῦσῐν toîs hĭereûsĭ(n)
Accusative	τὸν ῐ̔ερέᾱ tòn hĭeréā	τὼ ῐ̔ερῆ tṑ hĭerê	τοὺς ῐ̔ερέᾱς toùs hĭeréās
Vocative	ῐ̔ερεῦ hĭereû	ῐ̔ερῆ hĭerê	ῐ̔ερῆς / ῐ̔ερεῖς hĭerês / hĭereîs
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 hĭereús	ῐ̔ερῆε hĭerêe	ῐ̔ερῆες hĭerêes
Genitive	ῐ̔ερῆος / ῐ̔ερέος hĭerêos / hĭeréos	ῐ̔ερήοιν / ῐ̔ερήοιῐν hĭerḗoi(ĭ)n	ῐ̔ερήων hĭerḗōn
Dative	ῐ̔ερῆῐ̈ / ῐ̔ερέῐ̈ hĭerêĭ̈ / hĭeréĭ̈	ῐ̔ερήοιν / ῐ̔ερήοιῐν hĭerḗoi(ĭ)n	ῐ̔ερήεσσῐ / ῐ̔ερήεσσῐν / ῐ̔ερεῦσῐ / ῐ̔ερεῦσῐν hĭerḗessĭ(n) / hĭereûsĭ(n)
Accusative	ῐ̔ερῆᾰ / ῐ̔ερέᾰ hĭerêă / hĭeréă	ῐ̔ερῆε hĭerêe	ῐ̔ερῆᾰς hĭerêăs
Vocative	ῐ̔ερεῦ hĭereû	ῐ̔ερῆε hĭerêe	ῐ̔ερῆες hĭerêes
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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- priest idem, page 640.