King James Bible
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STRONGS NUMBER G752
Transliteration: archisynagōgos
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-khee-soon-ag'-o-gos)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: ruler of a synagogue
Meaning: ruler of a synagogue
ἀρχισυνάγωγος, ἀρχισυναγώγου, ὁ (συναγωγή), ruler of a synagogue, הַכְּנֶסֶת רֹאשׁ: Mark 5:22, 35f, 38; Luke 8:49; Luke 13:14; Acts 13:15; Acts 18:8, 17. It was his duty to select the readers or teachers in the synagogue, to examine the discourses of the public speakers, and to see that all things were done with decency and in accordance with ancestral usage; (cf. Alex.'s Kitto under the word Synagogue). (Not found in secular writings; (yet Schürer (Theol. Literatur-Zeit., 1878, p. 5) refers to Corp. Inscriptions Grace. no 2007 f. (Addenda ii., p. 994), no. 2221{c} (ii., p. 1031), nos. 9894, 9906; Mommsen, Inscriptions Regni Neap. no. 3657; Garrucci, Cimitero degli antichi Ebrei, p. 67; Lampridius, Vita Alexandr. Sever c. 28; Vopiscus, Vit. Saturnin c. 8; Codex Theodos. 16:8, 4, 13, 14; also Acta Pilat. in Tdf.s Ev. Apocr. edition 2, pp. 221, 270, 275, 284; Justin Martyr, dialog contra Trypho,
Word Summary
archisynagōgos: ruler of a synagogue
Original Word: ἀρχισυνάγωγοςTransliteration: archisynagōgos
Phonetic Spelling: (ar-khee-soon-ag'-o-gos)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: ruler of a synagogue
Meaning: ruler of a synagogue
Strong's Concordance
chief ruler of the synagogue. From arche and sunagoge; director of the synagogue services -- (chief) ruler of the synagogue.
see GREEK arche
see GREEK sunagoge
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 752: ἀρχισυνάγωγοςἀρχισυνάγωγος, ἀρχισυναγώγου, ὁ (συναγωγή), ruler of a synagogue, הַכְּנֶסֶת רֹאשׁ: Mark 5:22, 35f, 38; Luke 8:49; Luke 13:14; Acts 13:15; Acts 18:8, 17. It was his duty to select the readers or teachers in the synagogue, to examine the discourses of the public speakers, and to see that all things were done with decency and in accordance with ancestral usage; (cf. Alex.'s Kitto under the word Synagogue). (Not found in secular writings; (yet Schürer (Theol. Literatur-Zeit., 1878, p. 5) refers to Corp. Inscriptions Grace. no 2007 f. (Addenda ii., p. 994), no. 2221{c} (ii., p. 1031), nos. 9894, 9906; Mommsen, Inscriptions Regni Neap. no. 3657; Garrucci, Cimitero degli antichi Ebrei, p. 67; Lampridius, Vita Alexandr. Sever c. 28; Vopiscus, Vit. Saturnin c. 8; Codex Theodos. 16:8, 4, 13, 14; also Acta Pilat. in Tdf.s Ev. Apocr. edition 2, pp. 221, 270, 275, 284; Justin Martyr, dialog contra Trypho,
c. 137; Epiphanius haer. 30, 18; Eusebius, h. e. 7, 10, 4; see fully in his Gemeindeverfassung der Juden in Rom in d. Kaiserzeit nach d. Inschrften dargestellt (Leips. 1879), p. 25f).)