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noun · masculine

ethnarchos

Greekἐθνάρχης (ethnarchēs)

Strong’sG1481

an ethnarch, tribal lord

stem ethnarch-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

governor

What it means

**† ἐθνάρχης, -ου, ὁ

(< ἔθνος, ἄρχω), [in LXX: I Mac 14:47 15:1, 2 *;]

an ethnarch, a provincial governor (cf. I Mac, ll. c.; FlJ, Ant., xiii, 6, 6; Dalman, 332): II Co 11:32.†

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

Saideth-nar'-khace

the governor (not king) of a district

Fromfrom G1484 and G746;

King Jamesethnarch.

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

Every form

Job in the sentence caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativeethnarchosἐθνάρχηςethnarchois
object accusativeethnarchonethnarchoin
direct address vocativeethnarchorethnarchoir
of, belonging to genitiveethnarchouethnarchoiu
to, for dativeethnarchoethnarchoi

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
ethnarchstem+ogender+snruits job in the sentence case+ione · more than one number

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

ethnarchos“governor”subjectnominative singular

2 Corinthians 11:32“governor”en Damaska tos ethnarchos Haretaou tou basilevou frourate tan politan Damaskēnoiu piazara min,In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas secured the city of the Damascenes in order to arrest me.