Citations:ἄρχων

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English citations of ἄρχων

an archon (a ruler)[edit]

  • 2008, Ashley S. Crane, Israel's restoration: a textual-comparative exploration of Ezekiel 36-39, page 123:
    Raurell (1986, p. 89) argued that [...] "the ideal future monarch, who never transgresses in either the ritual or social sphere [...] becomes the antithesis of the ἄρχων" used in 1–39.
  • 2010, Translation Is Required: The Septuagint in Retrospect and Prospect, edited by Robert J. V. Hiebert, page 117:
    At the same time it could be a contemporization so that members of the Alexandrian Jewish community would recognize an ἄρχων as perhaps the Ptolemy in veiled language, or perhaps a cult figure within Dionysian religion, wildly popular with the Ptolemies.
  • 2010, Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament: Matthew:
    Normally an ἄρχων was a civil community leader (there were seven of them) and [...]