the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
Click here to join the effort!
Bible Lexicons
Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary Greek Lexicon
Strong's #775 - Ἀσιάρχης
- Thayer
- Strong
- Mounce
- an Asiarch, President of Asia.
- Book
- Word
- Parsing
did not use
this Strong's Number
Ἀσι-άρχης, ου, ὁ,
an Asiarch, priest of the Imperial cult in the province of Asia, Str. 14.1.42, Acts 19:31, IG 12(3).531, 14.2405, etc.; Ἀ. ναῶν τῶν ἐν Ἐφέσῳ OGI 525.8 (Halic.): — hence Ἀσι-αρχέω, BMus.Inscr. 481*.240 (Ephesus, ii A. D.), etc.
Ἀσιάρχης, Ἀσιαρχου, ὁ, an Asiarch, President of Asia: Acts 19:31. Each of the cities of proconsular Asia, at the autumnal equinox, assembled its most honorable and opulent citizens, in order to select one to preside over the games to be exhibited that year, at his expense, in honor of the gods and the Roman emperor. Thereupon each city reported the name of the person selected to a general assembly held in some leading city, as Ephesus, Smyrna, Sardis. This general council, called τό κοινόν, selected ten out of the number of candidates, and sent them to the proconsul; and the proconsul, apparently, chose one of these ten to preside over the rest. This explains how it is that in Acts, the passage cited several Asiarchs are spoken of, while Eusebius, h. e. 4, 15, 27 mentions only one; (perhaps also the title outlasted the service). Cf. Meyer on Acts, the passage cited; Winers RWB under the word Asiarchen; (BB. DD. under the word; but especially Le Bas et Waddington, Voyage Archeol. Inscriptions part. v., p. 244f; Kuhn, Die städtische u. bürgerl. Verf. des röm. Reichs, i. 106ff; Marquardt, Röm. Staatsverwalt. i. 374ff; Stark in Schenkel i., 263; especially Lightfoot Polycarp, p. 987ff).
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights rserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
*† Ἀσιάρχης , -ου , ὁ ,
an Asiarch, one of ten officers elected by the various cities in the province of Asia whose duty it was to celebrate at their own charges the public games and festivals: Acts 19:31 (Strab., Inscr.; DB, s.v.).†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
For inscriptional light on the meaning of this term it will be enough to refer to the archæologists : see esp. Ramsay’s bibliography in his art. sub voce in Hastings DB.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.