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Strong's #2183 - ἐφημερία
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- a service limited to a stated series of days
- the class or course itself of priests who for a week at a time performed the duties of the priestly office. 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
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ἐφημερ-ία, ἡ,
1. division of the priests for the daily service of the temple, LXX 1 Chronicles 23:6, Ne. 23.30, Luke 1:5.
2. the service itself, LXX 1 Esdras 1:16.
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: Nehemiah 13:30; 1 Chronicles 25:8; 2 Chronicles 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): 1 Chronicles 23:6; 1 Chronicles 28:13, etc.; 1 Esdr. 1:2, 15; so twice in the N. T.: Luke 1:5, 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, 1 Chronicles 24:4; 2 Chronicles 8:14; Nehemiah 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
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† ἐφ -ημερία , -ας , ἡ
(< ἐφήμερος ),
[in LXX chiefly for H4931, H4256;]
1. a course of daily services (Nehemiah 13:30, 1 Chronicles 25:8, al.).
2. a class or course of priests detailed for service in the temple (1 Chronicles 23:6, al.): Luke 1:5; Luke 1:8 (cf. MGr., ἐφημέριος , priest).†
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