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ἀρχισυνάγωγος

archisynágōgos · G752 · Greek · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. president of a synagogue, leader of a synagogue

    One who is the head of and who directs the affairs of a synagogue

    Examples

    Mark 5:22 And one of the synagogue officials, named Jairus, came, and upon seeing Him, fell at His feet

    Mark 5:35 While He was still speaking, people came from the house of the synagogue official, saying, “Your daughter has died; why bother the Teacher further?”

    Mark 5:36 But Jesus, overhearing what was being spoken, said to the synagogue official, “Do not be afraid, only believe.”

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 4 groups

It is given or told toIndirect object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
President of a synagogue, leader of a synagogue53.93
Used of the official responsible for arranging a synagogue's services, such as Jairus in Mark 5:22 and the officials who invite Paul to speak in Luke.
Word family 24 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἄρχω árchō · G757 · to be first · 2×ἀρχιερεύς archiereús · G749 · chief priest, high priest, most important priest · 122×ἄρχομαι árchomai · G756 · to rule, to govern, to begin · 84×ὑπάρχω hypárchō · G5225 · to be, to exist, to possess · 60×ἀρχή archḗ · G746 · beginning, to begin · 56×ἄρχων árchōn · G758 · ruler, governor, official · 37×ἀρχαῖος archaîos · G744 · for a long time, from the beginning, ancient · 11×ἀρχισυνάγωγοςarchisynágōgos · G752ἀπαρχή aparchḗ · G536 · first portion, first offering, first · 8×ἀρχηγός archēgós · G747 · initiator, founder, originator · 4×ἀρχιτρίκλινος architríklinos · G755 · head steward · 3×ἀρχάγγελος archángelos · G743 · archangel · 2×Ἄρχιππος Árchippos · G751 · horse-ruler; Archippus, a Christian · 2×ἐνάρχομαι enárchomai · G1728 · to begin, to commence · 2×ἐπαρχία eparchía · G1885 · province, region · 2×προενάρχομαι proenárchomai · G4278 · to begin previously · 2×προϋπάρχω proÿpárchō · G4391 · to exist formerly, to be formerly · 2×ὕπαρξις hýparxis · G5223 · possessions, property · 2×Ἀρχέλαος Archélaos · G745 · people-ruling; Archelaus, a Jewish king · 1×ἀρχιερατικός archieratikós · G748 · highpriestly, of the high priest · 1×ἀρχιποίμην archipoímēn · G750 · chief shepherd, head shepherd · 1×ἀρχιτέκτων architéktōn · G753 · expert builder, master builder · 1×ἀρχιτελώνης architelṓnēs · G754 · chief tax collector, director of tax collectors · 1×ὑπάρχοντα hypárchonta · G5224 · to be · 0×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἀρχισυναγώγου, ὁ (συναγωγή), ruler of a synagogue, הַכְּנֶסֶת רֹאשׁ: Mk 5:22, Mk 5:35f,…
ἀρχισυναγώγου, ὁ (συναγωγή), ruler of a synagogue, הַכְּנֶסֶת רֹאשׁ: Mk 5:22, Mk 5:35f, 38; Lk 8:49; Lk 13:14; Acts 13:15; Acts 18:8, Acts 18:17. It was his duty to select the readers or teachers in the synagogue, to examine the discourses of the public speakers, and to see that all things were done with decency and in accordance with ancestral usage; (cf. Alex.'s Kitto under the word Synagogue). (Not found in secular writings; (yet Schürer (Theol. Literatur-Zeit., 1878, p. 5) refers to Corp. Inscriptions Grace. no 2007 f. (Addenda ii., p. 994), no. 2221{c} (ii., p. 1031), nos. 9894, 9906; Mommsen, Inscriptions Regni Neap. no. 3657; Garrucci, Cimitero degli antichi Ebrei, p. 67; Lampridius, Vita Alexandr. Sever c. 28; Vopiscus, Vit. Saturnin c. 8; Codex Theodos. 16:8, 4, 13, 14; also Acta Pilat. in Tdf.s Ev. Apocr. edition 2, pp. 221, 270, 275, 284; Justin Martyr, dialog contra Trypho,
c. 137; Epiphanius haer. 30, 18; Eusebius, h. e. 7, 10, 4; see fully in his Gemeindeverfassung der Juden in Rom in d. Kaiserzeit nach d. Inschrften dargestellt (Leips. 1879), p. 25f).)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Roles and Functions9 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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