2001 Translation

ARCHŌN, archōn

Sounds Like: AR-khone

Translations: ruler, a ruler, prince, chief, magistrate, official, leader

From the root: ἈΡΧΩΝ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a person in a position of authority or leadership. It can denote a ruler, a prince, a chief, or any high-ranking official or magistrate. It is used to describe someone who holds power or has a prominent role in a community or government.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G0758 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 6:3, 6:7

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 4:13, 18:2

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 5:10

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Romans — 7:1
• Ignatius’ Letter to the Trallians — 4:2

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 5 — 8:243
• Book 8 — 2:37
• Book 11 — 4:75
• Book 14 — 7:117, 10:204, 10:258
• Book 17 — 11:314

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Two — 21:15
• Book Seven — 2:11, 3:11

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 32:1, 54:1
• Second Apology of Justin Martyr — 0:6
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 7:2, 52:2, 52:3, 120:3

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 27:134, 54:278, 57:294

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 34:2, 42:6, 49:10
• Leviticus — 4:22
• Numbers — 2:3, 2:5, 2:7, 2:10, 2:12, 2:14, 2:18, 2:20, 2:22, 2:25, 2:27, 2:29, 3:24, 3:30, 3:32, 3:35, 7:11, 7:12, 7:18, 7:24, 7:30, 7:36, 7:42, 7:48, 7:54, 7:60, 7:66, 7:72, 7:78, 16:13, 25:14, 34:22, 34:23, 34:24, 34:25, 34:26, 34:27, 34:28
• Deuteronomy — 33:5
• Joshua — 12:5, 22:14
• Judges — 4:2, 9:30
• 1 Samuel — 22:14
• 2 Samuel — 10:16, 19:13, 23:8, 23:18
• 1 Kings — 2:46, 4:24, 11:14, 11:21, 16:9
• 2 Kings — 5:1, 9:5
• 1 Chronicles — 5:6, 5:7, 5:15, 9:17, 11:20, 11:42, 12:3, 12:9, 15:5, 15:6, 15:7, 15:8, 15:9, 15:10, 15:22, 15:27, 23:8, 23:11, 23:16, 23:17, 23:18, 23:19, 23:20, 24:21, 24:31, 26:31, 27:3, 27:5, 29:12
• 2 Chronicles — 17:14, 31:10
• Nehemiah — 3:9, 3:12, 3:14, 3:16, 3:17, 3:18, 3:19
• 1 Maccabees — 2:17, 3:13
• Psalms — 104:20
• Odes — 9:38
• Job — 29:25
• Sirach — 48:15
• Isaiah — 10:8, 16:4, 33:22
• Jeremiah — 22:30, 28:59, 37:21
• Ezekiel — 7:27, 12:10, 12:12, 34:24, 37:22, 37:24, 37:25
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 2:10, 2:15, 3:38, 4:6, 10:13, 10:20, 10:21, 12:1
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 2:15, 3:38
• Hosea — 10:14
• Micah — 7:3
• Enoch — 6:3, 6:7

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 9:18
• Luke — 8:41, 18:18
• John — 3:1, 12:31, 14:30, 16:11
• Revelation — 1:5

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἈΡΧΩΝ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ἈΡΧΟΝΤΑΣ — ruler, a ruler, prince, a prince, chief, a chief, magistrate, a magistrate, official, an official
• ἈΡΧΟΝΤΙ — to a ruler, to the ruler, to a chief, to the chief, to a leader, to the leader, to a prince, to the prince, to a magistrate, to the magistrate
• ἈΡΧΟΝΤΟΣ — of a ruler, of a prince, of a chief, of a magistrate, of an official

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