ΤΑΞΙΑΡΧΟΥΣ, ταξιαρχους
TAXIARCHOUS, taxiarchous
Sounds Like: tah-xee-AR-khoos
Translations: commanders, generals, colonels, chiliarchs
From the root: ΤΑΞΙΑΡΧΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to military commanders or officers, specifically those in charge of a 'taxis' or a division of soldiers, often a thousand men. It is a compound word formed from 'taxis' (order, arrangement, division) and 'archos' (leader, ruler). It is used to describe high-ranking military leaders.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5033 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 47:242
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΤΑΞΙΑΡΧΟΣ.
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.
- ΤΑΞΙΑΡΧΟΙ — commanders, generals, officers
- ΤΑΞΙΑΡΧΟΙΣ — (to) commanders, (to) officers, (to) chiliarchs, (to) tribunes
- ΤΑΞΙΑΡΧΟΝ — commander, a commander, captain, a captain, chief, a chief
- ΤΑΞΙΑΡΧΟΣ — commander, captain, a commander, a captain
- ΤΑΞΙΑΡΧΟΥ — of a commander, of a chiliarch, of a captain, of a military tribune
- ΤΑΞΙΑΡΧΩΝ — of commanders, of captains, of chiliarchs
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