ἀρχιερέων (archiereon)

ἀρχιερέων is an Ancient Greek form of ἀρχιέρεως, meaning “high priest”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun or adjective or accusative singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 55 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Numa 9.1: Νομᾷ δὲ καὶ τὴν τῶν ἀρχιερέων, οὓς Ποντίφικας καλοῦσι, διάταξιν καὶ κατάστασιν ἀποδιδόασι, καί φασιν αὐτὸν ἕνα τούτων τὸν πρῶτον γεγονέναι. …

Plato, Laws 12.947: … μόνους δάφνης στεφάνῳ τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει κεκοσμημένους εἶναι, καὶ ἱερέας μὲν πάντας τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνός τε καὶ Ἡλίου, ἀρχιέρεων δὲ ἕνα κατʼ ἐνιαυτὸν τὸν πρῶτον κριθέντα τῶν γενομένων ἐκείνῳ τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ τῶν ἱερέων, καὶ τοὔνομα ἀναγράφειν τ …

Cassius Dio Cocceianus, Historia Romana 53.17.8: ὅπως ἂν αὐτοῖς δόξῃ. ἔκ τε τοῦ ἐν πάσαις ταῖς ἱερωσύναις ἱερῶσθαι καὶ προσέτι καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις τὰς πλείους σφῶν διδόναι, ἀρχιέρεών τέ τινα αὐτῶν, κἂν δύο κἂν τρεῖς ἅμα ἄρχωσιν, εἶναι, πάντων αὐτοὶ καὶ τῶν ὁσίων καὶ τῶν ἱερῶν

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.