noun · masculine
politarchos
Strong’sG4173
a ruler of a city
stem politarch-2 times 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.
*† πολιτάρχης, -ου, ὁ,
= πολίαρχος (Pind., Eur.),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4173 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpol-it-ar'-khace
a town-officer, i.e. magistrate
Fromfrom G4172 and G757;
King Jamesruler of the city.
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
civic magistrate, at Thessalonica, NT+2nd c.BC+; in Egypt, Refs 1st c.BC+:—also πολῑταρχ-ος, ὁ, Refs 4th 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.
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 | politarchos | politarchois |
| object accusative | politarchon | politarchoin2×πολιτάρχας |
| direct address vocative | politarchor | politarchoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | politarchou | politarchoiu |
| to, for dative | politarcho | politarchoi |
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
politarcho 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
politarchoin“city officials”objectaccusative plural2×
Acts 17:6“city authorities”… Iasōnon kai tinoin adelfoin epi toin politarchoin, boarōntois hoti Tois tan oikoumenan anastatarantois …… they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down …
Acts 17:8tarassala de ton ochlon kai toin politarchoin akouarōntoin houteim,On hearing this, the crowd and city officials were greatly disturbed.