ἱεροί (hieroi)

ἱεροί is an Ancient Greek form of ἱερός, meaning “holy, sacred”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of ἱερόω, “consecrate”.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.165: φαίνετο καὶ ποταμῶν ἱεροὶ ῥόοι, ἄλλοτε δʼ αὖτε

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.1.34: … αίνει γὰρ τὰς ὥρας. καὶ τὸ μὲν λευκὸν τῆς τἀγαθοῦ φύσεως, τὸ δὲ μέλαν τοῦ κακοῦ. τῶν ἰχθύων μὴ ἅπτεσθαι, ὅσοι ἱεροί· μὴ γὰρ δεῖν τὰ αὐτὰ τετάχθαι θεοῖς καὶ ἀνθρώποις, ὥσπερ οὐδʼ ἐλευθέροις καὶ δούλοις. ἄρτον μὴ καταγνύειν, ὅτ …

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.