Strong’s G749 · Greek
ἀρχιερεύς
archiereús · ar-khee-er-yuce'
Origin from ἀρχή (G746) and ἱερεύς (G2409);
Meaning the high-priest (literally, of the Jews, typically, Christ); by extension a chief priest
In the King James Version chief (high) priest, chief of the priests.
In 120 verses of the King James Version
51–100 of 120
- Luke 22:2And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
- Luke 22:4And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.
- Luke 22:50And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
- Luke 22:52Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him, Be ye come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves?
- Luke 22:54Then took they him, and led him, and brought him into the high priest’s house. And Peter followed afar off.
- Luke 22:66And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief priests and the scribes came together, and led him into their council, saying,
- Luke 23:4Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.
- Luke 23:10And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him.
- Luke 23:13And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,
- Luke 23:23And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
- Luke 24:20And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
- John 7:32The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him.
- John 7:45Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said unto them, Why have ye not brought him?
- John 11:47Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
- John 11:49And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
- John 11:51And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation;
- John 11:57Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him.
- John 12:10But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus also to death;
- John 18:3Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons.
- John 18:10Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.
- John 18:13And led him away to Annas first; for he was father in law to Caiaphas, which was the high priest that same year.
- John 18:15And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and so did another disciple: that disciple was known unto the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the palace of the high priest.
- John 18:16But Peter stood at the door without. Then went out that other disciple, which was known unto the high priest, and spake unto her that kept the door, and brought in Peter.
- John 18:19The high priest then asked Jesus of his disciples, and of his doctrine.
- John 18:22And when he had thus spoken, one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of his hand, saying, Answerest thou the high priest so?
- John 18:24Now Annas had sent him bound unto Caiaphas the high priest.
- John 18:26One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?
- John 18:35Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done?
- John 19:6When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him: for I find no fault in him.
- John 19:15But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
- John 19:21Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews.
- Acts 4:6And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.
- Acts 4:23And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.
- Acts 5:17Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,
- Acts 5:21And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
- Acts 5:24Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things, they doubted of them whereunto this would grow.
- Acts 5:27And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,
- Acts 7:1Then said the high priest, Are these things so?
- Acts 9:1And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
- Acts 9:14And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.
- Acts 9:21But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?
- Acts 19:14And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.
- Acts 22:5As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.
- Acts 22:30On the morrow, because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him from his bands, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.
- Acts 23:2And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
- Acts 23:4And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God’s high priest?
- Acts 23:5Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.
- Acts 23:14And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.
- Acts 24:1And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.
- Acts 25:2Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.