ἱεροῦ (hierou)

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

It can also be a form of ἱερόν, “temple, sanctuary; sacrifice”. It is the genitive singular neuter noun.

Found 408 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.112.5: Λακεδαιμόνιοι δὲ μετὰ ταῦτα τὸν ἱερὸν καλούμενον πόλεμον ἐστράτευσαν, καὶ κρατήσαντες τοῦ ἐν Δελφοῖς ἱεροῦ παρέδοσαν Δελφοῖς· καὶ αὖθις ὕστερον Ἀθηναῖοι ἀποχωρησάντων αὐτῶν στρατεύσαντες καὶ κρατήσαντες παρέδοσαν Φωκεῦσιν.

Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini 12.3: ἐς τὴν Προποντίδα. ταῦτα μὲν εἰδότι σοι λέγω. ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ Ἱεροῦ πλέοντι ἐν δεξιᾷ Ῥήβας ποταμός· σταδίους διέχει τοῦ Ἱεροῦ τοῦ Διὸς ἐνενήκοντα. ἔπειτα ἡ Μέλαινα ἄκρα ὧδε καλο …

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.