ΤΟΠΑΡΧΑΙ, τοπαρχαι
TOPARCHAI, toparchai
Sounds Like: toh-PAR-khai
Translations: toparchs, governors of a district, rulers of a district
From the root: ΤΟΠΑΡΧΗΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: A toparch is a ruler or governor of a specific district or region, often a small one. The word is a compound of 'τόπος' (place) and 'ἄρχων' (ruler). It refers to officials who held authority over a particular locality. This word is used in the plural form, referring to multiple such rulers.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Vocative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5116 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 8 — 7:179
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΤΟΠΑΡΧΗΣ.
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.
- ΤΟΠΑΡΧΑΙΣ — to the toparchs, for the toparchs, toparchs
- ΤΟΠΑΡΧΑΣ — toparchs, governors, rulers of a district, a toparch, a governor, a ruler of a district
- ΤΟΠΑΡΧΗ — toparch, a toparch, governor of a district, ruler of a place
- ΤΟΠΑΡΧΗΝ — toparch, a toparch, ruler of a district, governor of a district
- ΤΟΠΑΡΧΗΣ — toparch, a toparch, ruler of a district, governor of a place
- ΤΟΠΑΡΧΟΥ — of a toparch, of a district ruler, of a local governor
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