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ἱερέα (hierea)

ἱερέα is an Ancient Greek form of ἱερεύς, meaning “priest”.

It can also be a form of ἱέρεια, “priestess”. It is the nominative dual feminine noun.

Found 76 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Bacchae 1114: πρώτη δὲ μήτηρ ἦρξεν ἱερέα φόνου

All forms of ἱερεύς (declension table)

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.