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Strong's #2418 - ἱερουργέω
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- to minister in the manner of a priest, minister in priestly service
- of those who defend the sanctity of the law by undergoing a violent death
- of the preaching of the gospel
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ἱερουργ-έω,
I perform sacred rites, IG 12.4.4, 8, Ph. 2.94, etc.
II c. acc., ἱ. τὴν κλίνην, Lat. lectisternium facere, CIG (add.) 4528 (Lebanon); ἱ. ζῷα sacrifice them, gloss on σφάξαι, Ammon. Diff. p.127 V.; ἱ. τὸ εὐαγγέλιον minister the gospel, Romans 15:16; τὸν νόμον v.l. in LXX 4 Maccabees 7:8 : — Med., ἱερουργίας ἱερουργεῖσθαι Plu. Alex. 31: — Pass., τὰ ἱερουργηθέντα victims offered, Hdn. 5.5.9, cf. Palaeph. 51; -ούμεναι τελεταί celebrated, Iamb. VP 3.14; ἱερουργούμενοι βωμοί consecrated, Porph. Mar 18.
ἱερουργέω, ἱερούργω; (from ἱερουργός, and this from ἱερός and ἘΡΓΩ); to be busied with sacred things; to perform sacred rites (Philo, Herodian); used especially of persons sacrificing (Josephus, Antiquities 7, 13, 4, etc.); translated, to minister in the manner of a priest, minister in priestly service: τόν νόμον, of those who defend the sanctity of the law by undergoing a violent death, 4 Macc. 7:8; τό εὐαγγέλιον, of the preaching of the gospel, Romans 15:16 (where Fritzsche treats the word fully; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 222f (209))).
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**† ἱερουργέω , -ῶ
(< ἱερουργός , a sacrificing priest),
[in LXX: 4 Maccabees 7:3 R (of. -γία , 4Mac 3:30 א R)*;]
to perform sacred rites; c. acc, to minister in priestly service (minister in sacrifice, R, mg.), τὸ εὐαγγέλιον , Romans 15:16.†
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ἱερουργέω should receive the full force of ";sacrifice"; in Romans 15:16, the only place where it occurs in the NT : cf. Field Notes, p. 165 and SH ad l. The subst. is used in the wider sense of ";a sacred function"; in P Tebt II. 293.20 (c. A.D. 187) a report on an application for circumcision—διὰ [τ ]ὸ μὴ δύνασθαι τὰς ἱε [ρου ]ργίας ἐκτελεῖν εἰ μὴ τοῦτ [ο γενήσετα ]ι, ib. 294.24 (A.D. 146) ἵνα καὶ αἱ ὀφίλ [ο ]υσαι ἱερουργίαι τῶν σε φιλούντων θεῶν ἐπιτελῶνται : cf. also P Par 69E. .14 (A.D. 233) συ ]νηθῶν ἱερουργιῶν Δι [ὶ. . . . γει ]νομένων. In Syll 644.3 (end of iii/B.C.) reference is made τοῖς ἱερουργοῖς τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς τῆς Ἰτωνίας, who are described by Dittenberger as ";collegium eorum qui sacris Minervae Itoniae intererant.";
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