LogeionPerseus analysis of ἱερεύς:
ἱερεύς (priest, sacrificer, diviner): masc nom sg
LSJ entry
ἱερεύς
ἱερεύς [
ῐ], έως,
Ion. -ῆος,
Cypr. -ῆϝος Inscr.Cypr. 59
H., ὁ,
Att. pl. ἱερῆς:
gen. sg. and pl. written ἱερείως, ἱερείων,
PStrassb. 83.2,
9 (ii B.C.):—
Ion. nom. ἱρεύς Il. 5.10,
16.604,
Od. 9.198:
Dor. ἱᾰρεύς IG 4.1182,
al. (gen. ἰαρέος ib.1580); acc. pl. τὸς ἱαρές Schwyzer 236 (
Cyrene);
nom. pl. οἱ ἱαρές ibid.; nom. sg. ἱαρές GDI 4846 (
Cyrene):—
also ἱέρεως (
Att. and proparox. acc. to Choerob. in Theod. 1.253)
SIG 1037.4
(Milet., iv/iii B.C.);
gen. ἱέρεω IPE 12.32
A23,
al. (Olbia, iii B.C.);
dat. ἵρεῳ Schwyzer 692
(Chios, v. B.C.); acc. ἱέρεω Milet. 1(7).203b3 (ii B.C.):
ἱερής IG 5(2).115.1
(Tegea, iv/iii B.C.),
cf. Inscr.Cypr. 100
H.:—Arc. ἱαρής IG 5(2).13.10
(iii B.C.):
acc. ἱερήν ib.3.1 (Tegea, iv B.C.): (
ἱερός):—
A. priest, sacrificer, diviner,
Il. 1.62,
16.604,
Pi. P. 2.17,
Hdt. 2.2,
And. 1.124,
etc.; ἐφʼ ἱερέως,
as a date, SIG 332.1
(Potidaea, iv/iii B.C.),
etc. (freq. unaspirated, ἐπʼ ἰερέως IG 12(1).890,
etc. (
Rhodes));
of the Jewish High Priest, D.S. 34/
5.1;
ἱ. ὁ μέγας LXXLe. 21.10,
Ph. 2.591;
ἱ. ὁ χριστός LXXLe. 4.5;
at Rome, =
pontifex, Mon.Anc.Gr. 6.9;
ἱ. ὁ μέγιστος, =
pont. maximus,
D.S. 27.2.