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Koine Greek wordlink #141154

SR GNT Heb 1:10 ἀρχάς (arⱪas) ‘and you in the beginnings master the earth’ Strongs=7460 Lemma=arχē
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=feminine number=plural
Year=64 AD

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Other uses (3) of identical word form ἀρχάς (N-AFP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἀρχάς’ (N-AFP) has 2 different glosses: ‘the beginnings’, ‘rulers’.

Luke 12:11 ‘synagogues and the rulers and the authorities’ SR GNT Luke 12:11 word 16

OET-LV: 11 And whenever they _may _be _carrying _in you _all before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, you _all _may_ not _worry how or what you _all _may _defend or what you _all _may _say, (LUK_12:11)

OET-RV: 11 “Whenever you get dragged into the meeting halls or in front of rulers or authorities, don’t worry about how you’ll defend yourselves or what you’ll say, (LUK 12:11)

Eph 6:12 ‘but against the rulers against the authorities’ SR GNT Eph 6:12 word 16

OET-LV: 12 Because is not to _us the wrestling against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world _rulers of_ the this _darkness, against the spiritual of_ the _wickedness in the heavenly realms. (EPH_6:12)

OET-RV: 12 Our struggle isn’t against people, but against rulers, authorities, the powers of this world’s darkness, and the spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places. (EPH 6:12)

Col 2:15 ‘having disarmed the rulers and the authorities’ SR GNT Col 2:15 word 3

OET-LV: 15 having _disarmed the rulers and the authorities, he _exposed them in public, having _triumphed over _them in him. (COL_2:15)

OET-RV: 15 He had disarmed the rulers and authorities and publicly exposed them, because he had won the victory over them on the post. (COL 2:15)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘arχē’ have 8 different glosses: ‘a beginning’, ‘the beginning’, ‘the beginnings’, ‘to rulers’, ‘beginning’, ‘corners’, ‘rule’, ‘rulers’.

Key: N=noun AFP=accusative,feminine,plural