archōn · ruler

What it means

archōn (ἄρχων) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “ruler”.

Leader, ruler; an authority.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Someone in command: a ruler, a judge or the one presiding over a synagogue.
2. The chief of demons: "the ruler of this world".

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• ruler ×18
• rulers ×17
• authorities ×1
• leader ×1

Where it appears

• Matthew×5
• Mark×1
• Luke×8
• John×7
• Acts×11
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• Ephesians×1
• Revelation×1

• Matthew 9:18

  While he was saying these things to them, look, a ruler came and was bowing down before him, saying, “My daughter has just died; but come and lay your hand on her, and she will live.”

• Matthew 9:23

  And Jesus, coming into the ruler’s house and seeing the flute players and the crowd in an uproar,

• Matthew 9:34

  But the Pharisees were saying, “By the ruler of the demons he drives out the demons.”

• Matthew 12:24

  But the Pharisees, hearing it, said, “This man does not drive out the demons except by Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons.”

• Matthew 20:25

  But Jesus summoned them and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and the great ones exercise authority over them.

• Mark 3:22

  And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He has Beelzebul,” and, “By the ruler of the demons he drives out the demons.”

• Luke 8:41

  And look, there came a man whose name was Jairus, and he was a leader of the synagogue; and falling at Jesus’ feet, he begged him to come into his house,

• Luke 11:15

  But some of them said, “By Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons, he casts out the demons.”

• Luke 12:58

  For as you are going with your opponent before a ruler, on the way make an effort to be released from him, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge will hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff will throw you into prison.

• Luke 14:1

  And it happened, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him closely.

• Luke 18:18

  And a certain ruler asked him, saying, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

• Luke 23:13

  And Pilate called together the high priests and the rulers and the people

• Luke 23:35

  And the people stood watching. And the rulers also were sneering, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if this man is the Messiah of God, the Chosen One!”

• Luke 24:20

  and how our high priests and rulers handed him over to a sentence of death and crucified him.

• John 3:1

  Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

• John 7:26

  And look, he is speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers have really come to know that this is the Messiah?

• John 7:48

  Surely none of the rulers has believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

• John 12:31

  Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.

• John 12:42

  Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;

• John 14:30

  I will no longer speak much with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in me;

• John 16:11

  concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged.

• Acts 3:17

  And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers also did.

• Acts 4:5

  And it happened on the next day that their rulers and the elders and the scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem,

• Acts 4:8

  Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders,

• Acts 4:26

  The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Anointed.’

• Acts 7:27

  But the one who was wronging his neighbor pushed him away, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge over us?

• Acts 7:35

  This Moses, whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ this man God has sent as both ruler and redeemer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.

• Acts 13:27

  For those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers, not recognizing him or the voices of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

• Acts 14:5

  And when there was an attempt by both the nations and the Jews, with their rulers, to abuse and stone them,

• Acts 16:19

  But when her masters saw that the hope of their profit had gone out, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities.

• Acts 23:5

  And Paul said, “I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest; for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’”

• Romans 13:3

  For rulers are not a cause of fear to good work, but to bad. Do you want, then, not to fear the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from it;

• 1 Corinthians 2:6

  Yet we speak wisdom among the mature, but a wisdom not of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away.

• 1 Corinthians 2:8

  which none of the rulers of this age has known; for if they had known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

• Ephesians 2:2

  in which you once walked, according to the era of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience;

• Revelation 1:5

  and from Jesus the Messiah, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood,

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