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Greek noun (masculine) · G758

ἄρχων

archonar'-khone

ruler

37 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: árchōn

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G758is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 8
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G758

a first (in rank or power)

The King James renders it: chief (ruler), magistrate, prince, ruler.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

archon is rendered "ruler". It stands 37 times in the Greek text, across nine books.

  • Eleven of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 9:18While Jesus was saying these things, a synagogue leader came and knelt before Him. “My daughter has just died,” he said. “But come and place Your hand on her, and she will live.”
  • The Greek text spells it eight different ways.

The first use

While Jesus was saying these things, a synagogue leader came and knelt before Him. “My daughter has just died,” he said. “But come and place Your hand on her, and she will live.”

Matthew 9:18ἄρχων

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Eleven of the word's thirty-seven uses are in Acts.

The other 18 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • rulers18
  • ruler10
  • prince5
  • a ruler3
  • a magistrate1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

ἄρχωarchobe firstUses85

All 37, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

8 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • ἄρχοντες9
  • ἄρχων8
  • ἄρχοντα6
  • ἀρχόντων5
  • ἄρχοντι4
  • ἄρχοντας3
  • ἄρχοντος1
  • ἄρχουσιν1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · nominative (subject) · masculine plural8N-NPM
  • noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular8N-NSM
  • noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular6N-ASM
  • noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine plural5N-GPM
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular4N-DSM
  • noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural3N-APM
  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1N-DPM
  • noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1N-GSM
  • noun · vocative (address) · masculine plural1N-VPM

Matthew

five uses
  • While Jesus was saying these things, a synagogue leader came and knelt before Him. “My daughter has just died,” he said. “But come and place Your hand on her, and she will live.”

    Matthew 9:18

    • ἄρχωνarchonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a ruler
  • When Jesus entered the house of the synagogue leader, He saw the flute players and the noisy crowd.

    Matthew 9:23

    • ἄρχοντοςarchontosnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: ruler
  • But the Pharisees said, “It is by the prince of demons that He drives out demons.”

    Matthew 9:34

    • ἄρχοντιarchontinoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: prince
  • But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “Only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, does this man drive out demons.”

    Matthew 12:24

    • ἄρχοντιarchontinoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: prince
  • But Jesus called them aside and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their superiors exercise authority over them.

    Matthew 20:25

    • ἄρχοντεςarchontesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: rulers

Mark

one use
  • And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and, “By the prince of the demons He drives out demons.”

    Mark 3:22

    • ἄρχοντιarchontinoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: prince

Luke

eight uses
  • Just then a synagogue leader named Jairus came and fell at Jesus’ feet. He begged Him to come to his house,

    Luke 8:41

    • ἄρχωνarchonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a ruler
  • but some of them said, “It is by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons, that He drives out demons.”

    Luke 11:15

    • ἄρχοντιarchontinoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: prince
  • Make every effort to reconcile with your adversary while you are on your way to the magistrate. Otherwise, he may drag you off to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and the officer may throw you into prison.

    Luke 12:58

    • ἄρχονταarchontanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: a magistrate
  • One Sabbath, Jesus went to eat in the home of a leading Pharisee, and those in attendance were watching Him closely.

    Luke 14:1

    • ἀρχόντωνarchontonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: rulers
  • Then a certain ruler asked Him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

    Luke 18:18

    • ἄρχωνarchonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: ruler
  • Then Pilate called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,

    Luke 23:13

    • ἄρχονταςarchontasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: rulers
  • The people stood watching, and the rulers sneered at Him, saying, “He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is the Christ of God, the Chosen One.”

    Luke 23:35

    • ἄρχοντεςarchontesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: rulers
  • Our chief priests and rulers delivered Him up to the sentence of death, and they crucified Him.

    Luke 24:20

    • ἄρχοντεςarchontesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: rulers

John

seven uses
  • Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews.

    John 3:1

    • ἄρχωνarchonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: a ruler
  • Yet here He is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying anything to Him. Have the rulers truly recognized that this is the Christ?

    John 7:26

    • ἄρχοντεςarchontesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: rulers
  • “Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

    John 7:48

    • ἀρχόντωνarchontonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: rulers
  • Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.

    John 12:31

    • ἄρχωνarchonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: prince
  • Nevertheless, many of the leaders believed in Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue.

    John 12:42

    • ἀρχόντωνarchontonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: rulers
  • I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.

    John 14:30

    • ἄρχωνarchonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: ruler
  • and in regard to judgment, because the prince of this world has been condemned.

    John 16:11

    • ἄρχωνarchonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: ruler

Acts

eleven uses
  • And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.

    Acts 3:17

    • ἄρχοντεςarchontesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: rulers
  • The next day the rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,

    Acts 4:5

    • ἄρχονταςarchontasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: rulers
  • Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people!

    Acts 4:8

    • ἄρχοντεςarchontesnoun · vocative (address) · masculine pluraltagged: Rulers
  • The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the Lord and against His Anointed One.’

    Acts 4:26

    • ἄρχοντεςarchontesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: rulers
  • But the man who was abusing his neighbor pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?

    Acts 7:27

    • ἄρχονταarchontanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: ruler
  • This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

    Acts 7:35

    • ἄρχονταarchontanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: ruler
    • ἄρχονταarchontanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: ruler
  • The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.

    Acts 13:27

    • ἄρχοντεςarchontesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: rulers
  • But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,

    Acts 14:5

    • ἄρχουσινarchousinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: rulers
  • When the girl’s owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them before the authorities in the marketplace.

    Acts 16:19

    • ἄρχονταςarchontasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: rulers
  • “Brothers,” Paul replied, “I was not aware that he was the high priest, for it is written: ‘Do not speak evil about the ruler of your people.’”

    Acts 23:5

    • ἄρχονταarchontanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: ruler

Romans

one use
  • For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the one in authority? Then do what is right, and you will have his approval.

    Romans 13:3

    • ἄρχοντεςarchontesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: rulers

1 Corinthians

two uses
  • Among the mature, however, we speak a message of wisdom—but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.

    1 Corinthians 2:6

    • ἀρχόντωνarchontonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: rulers
  • None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

    1 Corinthians 2:8

    • ἀρχόντωνarchontonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine pluraltagged: rulers

Ephesians

one use
  • in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience.

    Ephesians 2:2

    • ἄρχονταarchontanoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: ruler

Revelation

one use
  • and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood,

    Revelation 1:5

    • ἄρχωνarchonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: ruler

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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