High Priest - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: high priestHigh priest
A chief priest esp the head of the Jewish priesthood...
High priesthood
The office dignity or position of a high priest...
Ephod
A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews being a covering for the back and breast held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod The ephod for the priests was of plain linen that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front...
Priestly
Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood sacerdotal befitting or becoming a priest as the priestly office a priestly farewell...
Confarreation
A form of marriage among the Romans in which an offering of bread was made in presence of the high priest and at least ten witnesses...
Pontifex
A high priest a pontiff...
Pontiff
A high priest...
Pontifical
Of or pertaining to a pontiff or high priest as pontifical authority hence belonging to the pope papal...
Pontificate
The state or dignity of a high priest specifically the office of the pope...
Sanhedrin
the great council of the Jews which consisted of seventy members to whom the high priest was added It had jurisdiction of religious matters...
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