ἀρχισυνάγωγος, ἀρχισυναγώγου, ὁ (συναγωγή), ruler of a synagogue, δΗλΐΜπΖρΖϊ ψΙΰωΡ: Mark 5:22 , 35 f, 38 ; Luk_8:49; Luk_13:14; Act_13:15; Act_18:8; Act_18:17. It was his duty to select the readers or teachers in the synagogue, to examine the discourses of the public speakers, and to see that all things were done with decency and in accordance with ancestral usage; (cf. Alex.'s Kitto under the word Synagogue). (Not found in secular writings; (yet Schürer (Theol. Literatur-Zeit., 1878, p. 5) refers to Corp. Inscriptions Grace. no 2007 f. (Addenda ii., p. 994), no. 2221{c} (ii., p. 1031), nos. 9894, 9906; Mommsen, Inscriptions Regni Neap. no. 3657; Garrucci, Cimitero degli antichi Ebrei, p. 67; Lampridius, Vita Alexandr. Sever c. 28; Vopiscus, Vit. Saturnin c. 8; Codex Theodos. 16:8, 4, 13, 14; also Acta Pilat. in Tdf.s Ev. Apocr. edition 2, pp. 221, 270, 275, 284; Justin Martyr, dialog contra Trypho, c. 137; Epiphanius haer. 30, 18; Eusebius, h. e. 7, 10, 4; see fully in his Gemeindeverfassung der Juden in Rom in d. Kaiserzeit nach d. Inschrften dargestellt (Leips. 1879), p. 25f).)

ἀρχισυνάγωγος archisynagōgos 9x a president or moderating elder of a synagogue, Mar_5:22 ; Mar_5:35-36 ; Mar_5:38 ; Luk_8:49

*† ἀρχισυνάγωγος , -ου , ὁ ( < συναγωγή ), ruler of a synagogue, an administrative officer, supervising the worship ( δΗλΜΐπΕνΖϊ H7218 ): Mar_5:22 ; Mar_5:35-36 ; Mar_5:38 Luk_8:49 ; Luk_13:14 , Act_13:15 ; Act_18:8 ; Act_18:17 ( Inscr ., v. MM , s.v. ; cf. also DB , ext., 101).†

ἀρχισυνάγωγος [page 82] Preisigke 623 (B.C. 80 69) ὧν ἀρχισυνά ]γωγος κ̣α̣ι̣ ἀρχιερεὺς [name presumably followed] : the previous mention of θε ]ῶν Φιλοπατόρων suffices to show that a profane writer uses the term. Thayer s inscriptional and literary quotations had already corrected the implication of Grimm s note. Cagnat I. 782 (Thrace) τὸν βω [μ ]ὸν τῇ συναγω [γ ]ῇ τῶν κουρέω [ν ] ( collegio tonsorum, Ed.) [π ]ερὶ ἀρχισυνάγ [ωγ ]ον Γ . Ἰούλιον [Ο ]ὐάλεντα δῶ [ρ ]ον ἀποκατέστη [σα ]ν : C. Julius Valens is the Master of the Barbers Company. See further Ziebarth Vereinswesen , p. 55 ff. For Jewish exx. see the Alexandrian inscr. of the time of Augustus in Archiv ii. p. 430, no. 5* and C. and B. , no. 559 (ii. p. 649), ὁ διὰ βίου ἀρχι [συν ]άγωγος , with Ramsay s remarks, showing that Julia Severa (A.D. 60 80), who figures in this Akmonian inscr., was a Jewess with the honorary title of ruler of the synagogue : cf. also Ramsay CRE , p. 68, and Lake, Earlier Epistles of S. Paul , p. 104 n .1 .

ἀρχισυνάγωγος [Etym: συναγωγή] "the ruler of a synagogue", NTest.

ἀρχισυνάγωγος, -ου, ὁ (συναγωγή), ruler of a synagogue, an administrative officer, supervising the worship (הַכְּנֵםֶת רֹאשׁ): Mrk.5:22, 35-36 5:38 Luk.8:49 13:14, Act.13:15 18:8, 17 (Inscr., see MM, see word; cf. also DB, ext., 101).† (AS)