noun · masculine
tetraarchos
Strong’sG5076
a tetrarch
stem tetraarch-4 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.
† τετραάρχης (Rec. τετράρχης, v. supr.), -ου, ὁ
(< τετρα- in comp. = τέτορα, Doric for τέσσαρα, + ἄρχω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5076 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtet-rar'-khace
the ruler of a fourth part of a country ("tetrarch")
Fromfrom G5064 and G757;
King Jamestetrarch.
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
tetrarch, Refs 1st c.BC+, etc.; of rulers under the protection of Rome of lower grade than kings, e.g. in Palestine, NT+1st c.AD+: also τέτραρχος, Θεσσαλῶν Refs 4th c.BC+ genitive -χου Refs c.AD), but -χα Refs
II a leader of four λόχοι, or 64 men, Refs 3rd 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 | tetraarchos3×τετραάρχης | tetraarchois |
| object accusative | tetraarchon | tetraarchoin |
| direct address vocative | tetraarchor | tetraarchoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | tetraarchou1×τετραάρχου | tetraarchoiu |
| to, for dative | tetraarcho | tetraarchoi |
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
tetraarcho 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
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
tetraarchos“tetrarch”subjectnominative singular3×
Matthew 14:1… ekeino to kairo akouata Hērōdos tos tetraarchos tan akoan Iēsu,At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the reports about Jesus
Luke 3:19tos de Hērōdos tos tetraarchos, elenchorōntos hupo autou peri Hērōdiadau tau …But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother’s wife Herodias and …
Luke 9:7Akouata de Hērōdos tos tetraarchos teim genorōnteim panteim, kai diaporate dia …When Herod the tetrarch heard about all that was happening …
tetraarchou“tetrarch”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 13:1… tos Kurēnaios, Manaēn tē Hērōdou tou tetraarchou suntrofos kai Saulos.… been brought up with Herod the tetrarch ), and Saul.