Ephēmería — G2183

Definition

feminine noun

diurnality, i.e. (specially) the quotidian rotation or class of the Jewish priests' service at the Temple, as distributed by families

1. a service limited to a stated series of days
2. "the class or course itself of priests who for a week at a time performed the duties of the priestly office" (German Wöchnerzunft)

Usually translated as

course

Origin

from G2184

• ephḗmeros (G2184)

Occurrences

Ephēmería occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Luke (2)

• Luke 1:5 — There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judæa, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course (ἐφημερίας) of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.
• Luke 1:8 — And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course (ἐφημερίας),