STRONGS G2183:
ἐφημερία,
-ας,
ἡ, (
ἐφημέριος,
-ον, 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
ἐφημερίδες, Antiquities 7, 14, 7; de vita sua 1; Suidas,
ἐφημερία·
ἡ πατριά.
λέγεται δὲ καὶ ἡ τῆς ἡμέρας λειτουργία. Cf.
Fritzsche, commentary on 3 Esdras, p. 12. [
BB. DD. under the word Priests;
Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, book 2, chapter 3].
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's
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1 Chronicles
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23:6; 24:4; 25:8; 28:13
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2 Chronicles
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8:14; 13:10
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Nehemiah
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12:24; 13:30
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Luke
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1:5; 1:8