Quick Definition
ἱεράτευμα, ατος, τό n.n. the act or office of priesthood
Strong's Definition
from 2407; the priestly fraternity, i.e. sacerdotal order (figuratively)
KJV Usage: priesthood
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἱεράτευμα, -ros, τό, (iepate’w), [ priesthood i. e.] a. the office of priest. b. the order or body of priests (see ἀδελφότης, αἰχμαλωσία, διασπορά, θεραπεία) ; so Christians are called, because they have access to God and offer not external but ‘spiritual’ (πνευματικά) sacrifices: 1 Pet. ii. 5; also ἱεράτ. βασίλειον, ib. 9 (after Ex. xix. 6 Sept.), priests of kingly rank, i. e. exalted to a moral rank and freedom which exempts them from the control of every one but God and Christ. ([Ex. xxiii. 22, ete.; 2 Mace. ii. 17]; not found in prof. auth.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἱεράτευμα hierateuma 2x
a priesthood; meton. a body of priests, 1 Pet. 2:5, 9*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
† ἱεράτευμα, -τος, τό
(< ἱερατεύω), [in LXX: βασίλειον ἱ., Ex 19:6 (כֹּהֲנִים מַמְלֶכֶת) 23:22, II Mac 2:17*;]
a priesthood, body of priests: ἱ ἅγιον, I Pe 2:5; βασ. ἱ, I Pe 2:9 (LXX, Ex 19:6).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἱεράτευμα. No ex. of this subst. has yet been found outside Biblical and ecclesiastical Greek, but cf. OGZS 511 (iii/B.c.) ἐκτενῶς ἑαυτὸν συνεπιδιδοὺς εἰς τὸ συναύξεσθαι τὸ τεχνίτευμα, where τεχνίτευμα seems to be used in the same collective sense of a ‘‘body’’ of artificers, as ἱεράτευμα of a ““body” of priests in 1 Pet 2%: in 74.° Hort ad 7. gives good reason for preferring the meaning ‘‘act or office of priesthood.’ His whole note on this group of words should be consulted. ἱερατεύω. Early evidence for this word from the inscrr. is afforded by OGIS οοδ! (Rosetta stone—B.C. 196) τῶν θεῶν ὧν ἱερατεύσουσιν, Magn 178° (ii/B.c.) ἱέραιαν ᾿Αρτέμιδος Λευκοφρυηνῆς ἱερατεύσασαν, Priene 177 (ii/B.c.)’ A®nvdmodts Κυδίμου ἱερητεύων (for the form cf. Thumb He//en. p. 68) Διονύσωι, etc. The writers of the LXX and Luke (18) were, therefore, only applying to the rites of the Jewish religion a term already current in the pagan world : see further Deissmann BS p. 215f., Anz Substdia, p. 370f., Thieme, p. 15, Rouffiac Recherches, p. 66f., and Poland Veretnswesen, p. 347 n°. The only example we can cite from the papyri is P Giss I. 1110 (A.D. 118) ὥστε εἱερατεύειν TOD χειρεισμοῦ τῶν κυβερνητ(ῶν), where see the editor’s note: the gen., which is similar to that after ἐπιμελοῦμαι, κήδομαι, ἐπιστατῶ, etc., is sometimes varied by the dat. commodi as in Priene 177 (supra).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἱεράτευμα (hierateuma) — priesthood. ἱερᾱτ-ευμα, ατος, τό, priesthood, [LXX+NT]
2. body of priests, [Refs 6th c.AD+]