Ancient Greek

Noun

ἀρχή • ‎(arkhḗ) f ‎(genitive ἀρχῆς); first declension

1. beginning, origin
2. sovereignty, dominion, authority
3. the end of a rope or stick, the corner of a sheet
   • New Testament, Acts of the Apostles 10.11

     [Πέτρος] θεωρεῖ ... ὀθόνην μεγάλην, τέσσαρσιν ἀρχαῖς δεδεμένον, καὶ καθιέμενον ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς

     [Peter] beholds ... a great sheet, tied by four corners, and being let down on the earth.

Inflection

Derived terms

• ἀρχαῖος ‎(arkhaîos)
• ἐθνάρχης ‎(ethnárkhēs)

Descendants

• Greek: αρχή ‎(archí)

References

• ἀρχή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀρχή in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἀρχή in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἀρχή» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «ἀρχή» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἀρχή» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G746”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «ἀρχή» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • authority idem, page 53.
  • birth idem, page 79.
  • cause idem, page 118.
  • chieftainship idem, page 129.
  • command idem, page 146.
  • commencement idem, page 147.
  • control idem, page 170.
  • corporation idem, page 174.
  • crown idem, page 186.
  • dawn idem, page 197.
  • derivation idem, page 214.
  • direction idem, page 226.
  • dominance idem, page 247.
  • domination idem, page 247.
  • dominion idem, page 247.
  • element idem, page 265.
  • empire idem, page 269.
  • foundation idem, page 341.
  • fountain idem, page 341.
  • germ idem, page 357.
  • government idem, page 368.
  • governorship idem, page 368.
  • ground idem, page 375.
  • ground-work idem, page 375.
  • head idem, page 389.
  • headship idem, page 391.
  • inception idem, page 427.
  • kingdom idem, page 470.
  • kingship idem, page 470.
  • lordship idem, page 500.
  • magistracy idem, page 507.
  • making idem, page 509.
  • mastery idem, page 516.
  • might idem, page 528.
  • nucleus idem, page 562.
  • office idem, page 571.
  • opening idem, page 575.
  • origin idem, page 579.
  • outset idem, page 583.
  • power idem, page 630.
  • principality idem, page 641.
  • principle idem, page 641.
  • realm idem, page 676.
  • reign idem, page 688.
  • rise idem, page 717.
  • root idem, page 721.
  • royalty idem, page 724.
  • rudiment idem, page 724.
  • rule idem, page 725.
  • sceptre idem, page 738.
  • seed idem, page 749.
  • source idem, page 797.
  • sovereignty idem, page 797.
  • spring idem, page 805.
  • start idem, page 811.
  • starting point idem, page 812.
  • strength idem, page 824.
  • supremacy idem, page 842.
  • supreme idem, page 842.
  • tenure idem, page 862.
  • territory idem, page 863.
  • threshold idem, page 870.
  • throne idem, page 870.