Hiereus denotes a person holding priestly office, associated with offerings, temple service, and priestly designation.

The term identifies persons in priestly office: some offer sacrifices, gifts, or cleansing offerings and perform service connected with the temple, while other passages apply the designation in statements about an enduring office or about those who will reign. The same noun is also used for priests sent to question John and for priests whom a cleansed person is told to approach.

1. Person holding priestly office · dominant

   The nominative singular form identifies the Zeus official who intends to offer sacrifice in Acts 14:13 and the person who repeatedly offers sacrifices in Hebrews 10:11. Plural forms identify persons performing ministry in the first tent in Hebrews 9:6 and those alone permitted the bread in Matthew 12:4; dative singular forms occur in commands to show oneself and bring an offering after cleansing in Mark 1:44. In Hebrews 7:21 the singular noun is used in the declaration that someone became priest with an oath.

   Acts 14:13Hebrews 10:11Hebrews 9:6Matthew 12:4Mark 1:44Hebrews 7:21

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB regularly uses "priest" or "priests," including in sacrificial, temple-service, cleansing, and enduring-office contexts. These English renderings confirm the clauses' presentation without establishing finer distinctions for the noun itself.