archēgos

Strong’sG747

originator, author, founder

stem archēg-4 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

ἀρχηγός, -όν,

[in LXX for רֹאשׁ, נָשִׂיא etc.;]

beginning, originating: more freq., as subst.;

1. founder, author (Lat. auchor; so sometimes in π., v. MM, s.v.; Milligan, NTD, 75): Ac 3:15 (R, mg.), He 2:10 (R, txt.; but v. Westc., in l., and Page, Ac 3:15).

2. prince, leader (so in MGr., v. Kennedy, Sources, 153): Ac 3:15 (R, txt.) 5:31, He 2:10 (cf. R, mg.) 12:2 (Cremer, 117).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G747 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidar-khay-gos'

a chief leader

Fromfrom G746 and G71;

King Jamesauthor, captain, prince.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἀρχηγός,
Doric dialect ἀρχᾱγός, όν, beginning, originating, λόγος ἀρχηγὸς κακῶνRefs 5th c.BC+; primary, leading, chief, Τροίας ἀ. τιμάςRefs 4th c.BC+
II as substantive, founder, of a tutelary hero, Refs 5th c.BC+; as feminine, ancestral heroine, Refs 5th c.BC+; founder of a family, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2 prince, chief, Δία ἀ. θεῶνRefs 5th c.BC+; chief captain, leader, ἙλλάνωνRefs 4th c.BC+
II.3 first cause, originator, κοπίδωνRefs 5th c.BC+; φόνουNT+4th c.BC+the originating power, Refs 5th c.BC+; primary, fundamental, ἀρχηγὸν ἡ φωνήRefs 1st c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

author3×leader1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	archēgos	archēgois
object accusative	archēgon4×ἀρχηγὸν	archēgoin
direct address vocative	archēgor	archēgoir
of, belonging to genitive	archēgou	archēgoiu
to, for dative	archēgo	archēgoi

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

archēgstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

archēgo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

archēgon“author”objectaccusative singular4×

Acts 3:15ton de archēgon tau zōau apoktenava, hon tos theos …You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him …

Acts 5:31“leader”houton tos theos archēgon kai sōtēron hupsata ta dexa autou, …God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order …

Hebrews 2:10… polloin huioin eis doxan agaranton ton archēgon tau sōtērēau autoiu dia pathēmeiu teleiara.… all things exist, to make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.

Hebrews 12:2aforarōntois eis ton tau pistiau archēgon kai teleiōton Iēsun, hos anti tau …… fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who …