STRONGS G2418:
ἱερουργέω,
-ῶ; (from
ἱερουργός, and this from
ἱερός and
ΕΡΓΩ);
to be busied with sacred things; to perform sacred rites (Philo, Herodian); used especially of persons sacrificing (Josephus, Antiquities 7, 13, 4, etc.); translated,
to minister in the manner of a priest, minister in priestly service:
τὸν νόμον, of those who defend the sanctity of the law by undergoing a violent death, 4 Macc. 7:8;
τὸ εὐαγγέλιον, of the preaching of the gospel,
Romans 15:16 (where Fritzsche treats the word fully; [cf. Winer's Grammar, 222f (209)]).
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