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Nave Topical Bible
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Scofield Reference Index
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Thompson Chain Reference
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The Topic Concordance
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Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
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• Paul; Before the Priest: & Roman Gov..., Sanhedrin
• Job; As Priest, Years
Torrey Topical Textbook
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Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
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American Tract Society
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Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
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Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
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Charles Buck Dictionary
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Chabad Knowledge Base
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• Eli, the High Priest
CARM Theological Dictionary
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Fausset Bible Dictionary
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Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
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Holman Bible Dictionary
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Hastings' BibleDictionary
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Hastings' NT Dictionary
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Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
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• Sergius, a Monophysite Priest
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King James Dictionary
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
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• Breastplate, High Priest's
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
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People's Bible Dictionary
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Smith Bible Dictionary
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
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Wilson's Bible Types
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Webster Dictionary
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Breastplate of the High Priest
• Christ As King, Priest, Prophet
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Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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• Bernard Priest and Sacristan of Compostella
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
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Lexicons
• ܟ݁ܰܗܶܢ
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• Ἁνανίας
• ἀρχιερατικός
• ἀρχιερεύς
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• בַּד , בַּד
• כָּהַן
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PRIEST, n. L. proestes, a chief, one that presides proe, before,and sto, to stand, or sisto.

1. A man who officiates in sacred offices. Among pagans, priests were persons whose appropriate business was to offer sacrifices and perform other sacred rites of religion. In primitive ages, the fathers of families, princes and kings were priests. Thus Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Melchizedek,Job, Isaac and Jacob offered their own sacrifices. In the days of Moses, the office of priest was restricted to the tribe of Levi, and the priesthood consisted of three orders, the high priest, the priests, and the Levites, and the office was made hereditary in the family of Aaron.

Every priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. Hebrews 5

2. In the modern church, a person who is set apart or consecrated to the ministry of the gospel a man in orders or licensed to preach the gospel a presbyter. In its most general sense, the word includes archbishops, bishops, patriarchs, and all subordinate orders of the clergy, duly approved and licensed according to the forms and rules of each respective denomination of christians as all these orders "are ordained for men in things pertaining to God." But in Great Britain, the word is understood to denote the subordinate orders of the clergy, above a deacon and below a bishop. In the United States, the word denotes any licensed minister of the gospel.