Greek noun (feminine) · G2183
ἐφημερία
ephemeriaef-ay-mer-ee'-ah
a course of daily services; a class or course of priests detailed for service in the temple
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ephēmería
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2183is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2183
diurnality, i.e. (specially) the quotidian rotation or class of the Jewish priests' service at the Temple, as distributed by families
The King James renders it: course.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ephemeria is rendered "a course of daily services; a class or course of priests detailed for service in the temple". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a course of daily services".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 1:5In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Aaron.
The first use
In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Aaron.
Luke 1:5ἐφημερίας
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Luke.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: a course of daily services, and a class or course of priests detailed for service in the temple.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| a course of daily servicesNeh.13:30 | Tagged aslisted under the table | Where1 Chronicles 25:8They cast lots for their duties, young and old alike, teacher as well as pupil. |
| a class or course of priests detailed for service in the temple1Ch.23:6 | Tagged as
| Where1 Chronicles 23:6Then David divided the Levites into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐφήμερος | ephemeros | daily | Uses1 |
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐφημερίας2
The grammar of each form
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular2N-GSF
Luke
two uses
In the time of Herod king of Judea there was a priest named Zechariah, who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah, and whose wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Aaron.
- ἐφημερίαςephemeriasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: division
One day while Zechariah’s division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God,
- ἐφημερίαςephemeriasnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: division
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.