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ἱεραῖς (hierais)

ἱεραῖς is an Ancient Greek form of ἱερός, meaning “holy, sacred”.

It can also be a form of ἱερή, “sacred, holy”.

It can also be a form of ἱερά, “sacrifice, offerings; holy rites”. It is the dative plural feminine noun or adjective.

Found 54 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.1.14: … ν καὶ Ἀθήναιος ὁ ἐπιγραμματοποιὸς περὶ αὐτῶν φησὶν οὕτως· ὦ στωικῶν μύθων εἰδήμονες, ὦ πανάριστα δόγματα ταῖς ἱεραῖς ἐνθέμενοι σελίσιν, τὰν ἀρετὰν ψυχᾶς ἀγαθὸν μόνον· ἅδε γὰρ ἀνδρῶν μούνα καὶ βιοτὰν ῥύσατο καὶ πόλιας. σαρκὸς δ …

All forms of ἱερός (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.