noun · masculine
architriklinos
Strong’sG755
master of the feast
stem architriklin-3 times in the New Testament2 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-τρίκλινος, -ου, ὁ
(< τρί-κλινος or -ον, a room with three couches)
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G755 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidar-khee-tree'-klee-nos
director of the entertainment
Fromfrom G746 and a compound of G5140 and G2827 (a dinner-bed, because composed of three couches);
King Jamesgovernor (ruler) of the feast.
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
president of a banquet (triclinium), NT
2 head-waiter, Refs 3rd 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.
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 | architriklinos2×ἀρχιτρίκλινος | architriklinois |
| object accusative | architriklinon | architriklinoin |
| direct address vocative | architriklinor | architriklinoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | architriklinou | architriklinoiu |
| to, for dative | architriklino1×ἀρχιτρικλίνῳ | architriklinoi |
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
architriklino 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
architriklinos“headwaiter”subjectnominative singular2×
John 2:9“headwaiter”hōs de geueta tos architriklinos tem hudem oinon genorēntem, kai ouk …and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not know where …
John 2:9“master of the feast”… tem hudem, fōnatō ton numfion tos architriklinosand the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not know where it was from, but the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside
architriklino“headwaiter”to, fordative singular1×
John 2:8“headwaiter”… autoi; Antlavar nun kai feravōr to architriklino; tois de ferala.“Now draw some out,” He said, “and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so,