noun · masculine
ethnarchos
Strong’sG1481
an ethnarch, tribal lord
stem ethnarch-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.
**† ἐθνάρχης, -ου, ὁ
(< ἔθνος, ἄρχω), [in LXX: I Mac 14:47 15:1, 2 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1481 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
ruler of a tribe or nation, Ἄσανδρος ἀντὶ ἐθνάρχου βασιλεὺς ἀναγορευθεὶς βοσπόρου Refs 2nd c.AD+; sheikh, Refs; of Abraham, Refs 1st c.AD+
2 title of Jewish official, LXX+4th c.BC+
II adjective, ruling over nations, ἐ. θεοί Refs 4th 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 | ethnarchos1×ἐθνάρχης | ethnarchois |
| object accusative | ethnarchon | ethnarchoin |
| direct address vocative | ethnarchor | ethnarchoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | ethnarchou | ethnarchoiu |
| to, for dative | ethnarcho | ethnarchoi |
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
ethnarcho 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
ethnarchos“governor”subjectnominative singular1×
2 Corinthians 11:32en Damaska tos ethnarchos Haretou tou basilevou frourate tan polan …In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city …