[ᾱ] être prêtre ou prêtresse, SPT. Ex. 28, 1, etc. ; NT. Luc. 1, 8 ; θεῷ, HDN 5, 6, 6, d’une divinité ;

Moy. m. sign. avec le dat. SYN. Ep. 76.

Étym. ἰεράομαι.

Ion. ἱερητεύω GDI 5394 (later also in Northern Greece, Boeot., IG 7.3097 (perh. i BC); Phoc., ib. 9 (1).32.40 (Stiris, ii BC), al. ; Thess., ib. 9 (2).333 (i AD), cf. SIG 2588.110 (Delos, ii BC); Lesb. ἰρητεύω IG 12(2).527.45): — to be priest or priestess, θεῶν OGI 90.51 (Rosetta, ii BC); Καίσαρος prob. ib. 767.4 (Cyrene); τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ Σωτῆρος IG 7.2727 (Acraeph., i BC); τᾷ Ἀθάνᾳ ib. 9 (1).65 (Daulis), cf. Hdn. 5.6.3; abs., SIG 1044.19 (Halic., iv/iii BC), al., LXX Ex. 28.1, Ev. Luc. 1.8; — also ἱερατεύομαι, IGRom. 4.539 (Cotiaeum). Pass., to be made holy, Zos.Alch. p. 108B.

[ᾱ], Priester, Priesterin sein, LXX ; τῷ θεῷ, Hdn. 5.6.6 ; τινός, Inscr.; im med. bei a.Sp.

ἱερατεύω
(cl. = ἱεράομαι) [in LXX chiefly for כָּהַן pi. ;]
to be a priest, officiate as a priest: Luk.1:8 (the word is freq. in Inscr.; see LS, see word; Deiss., BS, 215; LAE, 70; Cremer, 734).†
(AS)