Lexical Summary politarchēs: the ruler of a city Original Word: πολιτάρχηςTransliteration: politarchēs Phonetic Spelling: (pol-it-ar'-khace) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: the ruler of a city Meaning: the ruler of a city Strong's Concordance ruler of the city. From polis and archo; a town-officer, i.e. Magistrate -- ruler of the city. see GREEK polis see GREEK archo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4173: πολιτάρχηςπολιτάρχης, πολιταρχου, ὁ (i. e. ὁ ἄρχων τῶν πολιτῶν; see ἑκατοντάρχης), a ruler of a city or citizens: Acts 17:6, 8. (Boeckh, Corpus inscriptions Graec. ii., p. 52f no. 1967 (cf. Boeckh's note, and Tdf. Proleg., p. 86 note 2); in Greek writings πολίαρχος was more common.) |