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Ἀσιάρχης

Asiárchēs · G775 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. provincial authority, local official

    A high-ranking official in Asia Minor (in an area which is now Turkey)

    Examples

    Acts 19:31 Also some of the Asiarchs who were friends of his sent word to him and repeatedly urged him not to venture into the theater.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Provincial authority, local official37.81
Used of the Asiarchs, prominent officials of the province of Asia who send word of concern to Paul in Acts 19:31.
Word family 3 words

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

Ἀσία Asía · G773 · Asia, i.e. Asia Minor, or only its western shore · 18×Ἀσιανός Asianós · G774 · an Asian · 1×ἈσιάρχηςAsiárchēs · G775
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon Ἀσιαρχου, ὁ, an Asiarch, President of Asia: Acts 19:31. Each of the cities of proconsular…
Ἀσιαρχου, ὁ, an Asiarch, President of Asia: Acts 19:31. Each of the cities of proconsular Asia, at the autumnal equinox, assembled its most honorable and opulent citizens, in order to select one to preside over the games to be exhibited that year, at his expense, in honor of the gods and the Roman emperor. Thereupon each city reported the name of the person selected to a general assembly held in some leading city, as Ephesus, Smyrna, Sardis. This general council, called τό κοινόν, selected ten out of the number of candidates, and sent them to the proconsul; and the proconsul, apparently, chose one of these ten to preside over the rest. This explains how it is that in Acts, the passage cited several Asiarchs are spoken of, while Eusebius, h. e. 4, 15, 27 mentions only one; (perhaps also the title outlasted the service). Cf. Meyer on Acts, the passage cited; Winers RWB under the word Asiarchen; (BB. DD. under the word; but especially Le Bas et Waddington, Voyage Archeol. Inscriptions part. v., p. 244f; Kuhn, Die städtische u. bürgerl. Verf. des röm. Reichs, i. 106ff; Marquardt, Röm. Staatsverwalt. i. 374ff; Stark in Schenkel i., 263; especially Lightfoot Polycarp, p. 987ff).

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

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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.

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