noun · masculine
politarchos
Greekπολιτάρχης (politarchēs)
Strong’sG4173
a ruler of a city
stem politarch-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
Translated as
What it means
*† 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.
Every form
| 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
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
politarchoin“city officials”objectaccusative plural2×
Acts 17:6“city authorities”mē heuriskaratois de autoin surale Iasōnon kai tinoin adelfoin epi toin politarchoin, boarōtois hoti Tois tan oikoumenan anastataratois houtois kai enthade pareialō,But when they could not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting, “These men who have turned the world upside down have now come here,
Acts 17:8“city officials”tarassala de ton ochlon kai toin politarchoin akouarōtoin houteim,On hearing this, the crowd and city officials were greatly disturbed.