archipoimēnos

Strong’sG750

the chief shepherd

stem archipoimēn-once in the New Testament1 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.

**† ἀρχι-ποίμην, -ενος, ὁ,

[in Sm.: IV Ki 3:4*;]

found on an Egyptian mummy label (Deiss., LAE, 97 ff.; cf. MM, s.v.); used by modem Greeks of tribal chiefs; chief shepherd. of Christ, I Pe 5:4.†

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

Strong’s G750 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidar-khee-poy'-mane

a head shepherd

Fromfrom G746 and G4166;

King Jameschief shepherd.

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

ἀρχι-ποίμην, ενος, ὁ,
chief shepherd, NT+2nd c.AD+

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.

chief shepherd1×

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	archipoimēnos	archipoimēnois
object accusative	archipoimēnon	archipoimēnoin
direct address vocative	archipoimēnor	archipoimēnoir
of, belonging to genitive	archipoimēnou1×ἀρχιποίμενος	archipoimēnoiu
to, for dative	archipoimēno	archipoimēnoi

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

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

archipoimēno 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

archipoimēnou“chief shepherd”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

1 Peter 5:4kai fanerirantou tou archipoimēnou komizevi ton amarantinon tau doxau stefanon.And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown …