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Strong's #1481 - ἐθνάρχης

Transliteration
ethnárchēs
Phonetics
eth-nar'-khace
Origin
from (G1484) and (G746)
Parts of Speech
Noun Masculine
TDNT
None
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  1. an ethnarch, one set over a people as ruler, but without the authority and name of a king
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Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

ἐθν-άρχης, ου, ὁ,

I

1. ruler of a tribe or nation, Ἄσανδρος ἀντὶ ἐθνάρχου βασιλεὺς ἀναγορευθεὶς βοσπόρου Luc. Macr. 17; sheikh, OGI 616.2 (Arabia); of Abraham, Ph. 1.513.

2. title of Jewish official, LXX 1 Maccabees 14:47, Str. 17.1.13, Nic.Dam. p.143 D., 2 Corinthians 11:32, J. AJ 13.6.7.

II Adj., ruling over nations, ἐ. θεοί Jul. Gal. 115d, cf. 143a.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

ἐθνάρχης, ἐθναρχου, (from ἔθνος and ἄρχω), (equivalent to founder of a nation, Philo,quis rer. div. her. § 56), an ethnarch, one set over a people as ruler, but without the authority and name of king (Lucian, in Macrobius, § 17 ἀντί ἐθναρχου βασιλεύς ἀναγορευθεις Βοσπορου; so the governor whom the Alexandrian Jews used to have was called ἐθνάρχης, of whom Josephus says, Antiquities 14, 7, 2, ὅς διοικεῖ τέ τό ἔθνος καί δίαιτα κρίσεις καί συμβολαιων ἐπιμελειται καί προσταγμάτων, ὡς ἄν πολιτείας ἄρχων ἀυτοτελους; likewise Simon Maccabaeus, 1 Macc. 14:47 1 Macc. 15:1, 2; Josephus, Antiquities 13, 6, 6; cf. (19, 5, 2); b. j. 2, 6, 3): 2 Corinthians 11:32 ἐθνάρχης Ἁρέτα τοῦ βασιλέως, the governor of Damascene Syria, ruling in the name of king Aretas ((which see); cf. B. D. under the word , 11).


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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

**† ἐθνάρχης , -ου ,

(< ἔθνος , ἄρχω ),

[in LXX: 1 Maccabees 14:47; 1 Maccabees 15:1-2 *;]

an ethnarch, a provincial governor (cf. 1 Mac, ll. c.; FlJ, Ant., xiii, 6, 6; Dalman, 332): 2 Corinthians 11:32.†


Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
Vocabulary of the Greek NT

For the technical uses of this title, which in 2 Corinthians 11:32 occurs in the more general sense of a deputy governor or subordinate ruler, see Hohlwein L’ Égypte Romaine, p. 207; also Lumbroso in Archiv i. p. 66 f.

 


The Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
List of Word Forms
εθναρχης εθνάρχης ἐθνάρχης ethnarches ethnarchēs ethnárches ethnárchēs
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