ἐφημερία, ἐφημερίας, ἡ (efeemerios], ἐφημεριον, by day, lasting or acting for a day, daily), a word not found in secular authors; the Sept. in Chronicles and Nehemiah; 1. a service limited to a stated series of days (cf. German Tagdienst,Wochendienst); so used of the service of the priests and Levites: Neh_13:30; 1Ch_25:8; 2Ch_13:10, etc. 2. "the class or course itself of priests who for a week at a time performed the duties of the priestly office" (German Wöchnerzunft): 1Ch_23:6; 1Ch_28:13, etc.; 1Es_1:2; 1Es_1:15; so twice in the N. T.: Luk_1:5; Luk_1:8. For David divided the priests into twenty-four classes, each of which in its turn discharged the duties of the office for an entire week from sabbath to sabbath, 1Ch_24:4; 2Ch_8:14; Neh_12:24; these classes Josephus calls πατριαί and ἐφημεριδες, Antiquities 7, 14, 7; de vita sua1; Suidas, ἐφημερία. ἡ πατριά λέγεται δέ καί ἡ τῆς ἡμέρας λειτουργία. Cf. Fritzsche, commentary on 3 Esdras, p. 12. (BB. DD. under the word Priests; Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, book ii., chapter iii.)

ἐφημερία ephēmeria 2x pr. daily course; the daily service of the temple; a class of priests to which the daily service for a week was allotted in rotation, Luk_1:5 ; Luk_1:8

† ἐφ -ημερία , -ας , ἡ ( < ἐφήμερος ), [in LXX chiefly for H4931 , H4256 ;] 1. a course of daily services ( Neh_13:30 , 1Ch_25:8 , al .). 2. a class or course of priests detailed for service in the temple ( 1Ch_23:6 , al. ): Luk_1:5 ; Luk_1:8 ( cf. MGr ., ἐφημέριος , priest).†

ἐφημερία ἐφημερία, ἡ, ἐφ᾽ ἡμέραν, "for the daily service of the temple", NTest.

ἐφ-ημερία, -ας, ἡ (ἐφήμερος), [in LXX chiefly for מִשְׁמֶרֶת, מַחֲלֹקֶת ;] __1. a course of daily services (Neh.13:30, 1Ch.25:8, al.). __2. a class or course of priests detailed for service in the temple (1Ch.23:6, al.): Luk.1:5, 8 (cf. MGr., ἐφημέριος, priest).† (AS)