Strong's #2409: hiereus (pronounced hee-er-yooce')

from 2413; a priest (literally or figuratively):--(high) priest.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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hiereus

1) a priest, one who offers sacrifices and in general in busied with sacred rites

1a) referring to priests of Gentiles or the Jews

2) metaphorically of Christians, because, purified by the blood of Christ and brought into close intercourse with God, they devote their life to him alone and to Christ

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from G2413

Citing in TDNT: 3:257, 349

Usage:

This word is used 32 times:

 

Matthew 8:4: "show thyself to the priest, and offer the gift"
Matthew 12:4: "him, but only for the priests"
Matthew 12:5: "that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane"
Mark 1:44: "show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy"
Mark 2:26: "is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave"
Luke 1:5: "king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course"
Luke 5:14: "and show thyself to the priest, and offer for thy"
Luke 6:4: "it is not lawful to eat but for the priests alone?"
Luke 10:31: "chance there came down a certain priest that way: and"
Luke 17:14: "show yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went,"
John 1:19: "the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem"
Acts 4:1: "the people, the priests, and the captain of the"
Acts 5:24: "Now when the high priest and the captain"
Acts 6:7: "a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith."
Acts 14:13: "Then the priest of Jupiter, which was before their city,"
Hebrews 5:6: "in another place, Thou art a priest forever after the"
Hebrews 7:1: "Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met"
Hebrews 7:3: "Son of God; abideth a priest continually."
Hebrews 7:11: "further need was there that another priest should rise after the order"
Hebrews 7:15: "of Melchizedek there ariseth another priest,"
Hebrews 7:17: "For he testifieth, Thou art a priest forever after the"
Hebrews 7:21: "(For those priests were made without an oath; but"
Hebrews 7:21: "will not repent, Thou art a priest forever after the"
Hebrews 7:23: "truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death:"
Hebrews 8:4: "earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer"
Hebrews 8:4: "be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according"
Hebrews 9:6: "were thus ordained, the priests went always into"
Hebrews 10:11: "And every priest standeth daily ministering"
Hebrews 10:21: "And having a high priest over the house of God;"
Revelation 1:6: "us kings and priests unto God and his Father;"
Revelation 5:10: "God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the"
Revelation 20:6: "power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and"