ἱερατεία
Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιον ἡ ὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking
English (LSJ)
ἡ,
A priesthood, Arist.Pol.1328b13, OGI90.52 (Rosetta, ii B.C.), LXXEx.29.9, Ev.Luc.1.9, IG5(2).516 (Lycosura, i A. D.), etc.: Ion. ἱρητήη Schwyzer692 (Chios, V B.C.); later ἱερητείη and ἱέρᾱτ-α GDI ivpp.885-6 (Erythrae, iv B.C.), SIG1014.14 (ibid., iii B.C.), 1015.5 (Halic.).
German (Pape)
[Seite 1240] ἡ, Priesterthum, Arist. pol. 7, 8 u. Sp.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἱερᾱτεία: ἡ, τὸ ὑπούργημα τοῦ ἱερέως, ἡ ἱερωσύνη, ἡ περὶ τοὺς θεοὺς ἐπιμέλεια, Ἀριστ. Πολιτικ. 7. 8, 7, Συλλ. Ἐπιγρ. 2059. 23., 2909, κ. ἀλλ., Καιν. Διαθ.· Ἰων. ἱερητεία, Συλλ. Ἐπιγρ. 2656. 5.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ας (ἡ) :
fonction de prêtre, prêtrise, sacerdoce.
Étymologie: ἱερατεύω.
English (Strong)
from ἱερατεύω; priestliness, i.e. the sacerdotal function: office of the priesthood, priest's office.
English (Thayer)
(WH ἱερατια; cf. Iota), ἱερατείας, ἡ (ἱερατεύω), the priesthood, the office of priest: Sept. for כְּהֻנָּה; Aristotle, pol. 7,8; Dionysius Halicarnassus; Boeckh, Inscriptions ii., pp. 127,23; 363,27.)
Greek Monolingual
η (ΑΜ ἱερατεία, Α και ἱερητείη και ἱερητεία, ιων. τ. ἱρητήη) ιερατεύω
το αξίωμα του ιερέα, η ιερωσύνη («τὴν περὶ τὸ θεῑον ἐπιμέλειαν, ἢν καλοῡμεν ἱερατείαν», Αριστοτ.).