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Koine Greek wordlink #939

SR GNT Mat 2:22 Ἀρχέλαος (Arⱪelaos) ‘having heard but that Arⱪelaos is reigning over Youdaia instead_of’ Strongs=7450 Lemma=arχelaos^*
Word role=proper noun case=nominative gender=masculine number=singular
Person=Archelaus Year=-4 TimeSeries=Joseph_and_Mary_return_from_Egypt,Joseph_and_Mary_return_to_Nazareth Referred to from Word #948

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Only use of identical word form Ἀρχέλαος (N-NMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Ἀρχέλαος’ (N-NMS) is always and only glossed as ‘Arⱪelaos’.

(In the VLT, the word form ‘Ἀρχέλαος’ (N-NMS) was always and only glossed as ‘Archelaus’).

Mat 2:22 ‘having heard but that Arⱪelaos is reigning over Youdaia instead_of’ SR GNT Mat 2:22 word 4

OET-LV: 22 But having _heard that Arⱪelaos is _reigning the over _Youdaia instead _of Haʸrōdaʸs the father of _him, he _was _afraid to _go _away there, and having _been _warned in a_dream, he _withdrew into the districts of_ the _Galilaia/(Gālīl), (MAT_2:22)

OET-RV: 22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Yudea instead of his father Herod, and also having been warned in a dream, he left Yudea and went to the Galilee area. (MAT 2:22)

^*Note: This is also the only occurrence of the word root (lemma) ‘arχelaos’ in the Greek originals.

Key: N=noun NMS=nominative,masculine,singular