to serve as priest
Transliteration:
hierateuō
Definition:
ἱερατεύω (cl. = ἱεράομαι) [in LXX chiefly for כָּהַן pi;] to be a priest, officiate as a priest: Luk.1:8 (the word is freq. in Inscr; see LS, see word; Deiss, BS, 215; LAE, 70; Cremer, 734). (AS)
Transliteration:
hierateuō
Definition:
ἱερᾱτ-εύω,
Ionic dialect ἱερητ- [
Refs] (later also in Northern Greece,
Boeotian dialect, [
Refs 6th c.BC+]; Lesb. ἰρητεύω [
Refs]:—
to be priest or
priestess, θεῶν [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ Σωτῆρος [
NT+4th c.BC+]:—also
ἱερᾱτ-εύομαι, [
Refs]
II)
passive,
to be made holy, Zos.Alch.p.108B.
Transliteration:
hierateúō
Pronounciation:
hee-er-at-yoo'-o
Definition:
to be a priest, i.e. perform his functions; execute the priest's office; prolongation from
g2409 (ἱερεύς);