ἀρχιμάγειρος
chief cook, captain of guard
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀρχιμάγειρος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 22 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 37:36 ἀρχιμάγειρος
- Genesis 39:1 ἀρχιμάγειρος And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Petephres the eunuch of Pharao, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ismaelites, who brought him down there.
- Genesis 41:10 ἀρχιμάγειρος Pharao was angry with his servants, and put us in prison in the house of the captain of the guard, both me and the chief baker.
- Genesis 41:12 ἀρχιμάγειρος And there was there with us a young man, a Hebrew servant of the captain of the guard; and we related to him our dreams, and he interpreted them to us.
- 2 Kings 25:8 ἀρχιμάγειρος And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month (this is the nineteenth year of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon), came Nabuzardan, captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 25:10 ἀρχιμάγειρος And the force of the Chaldeans pulled down the wall of Jerusalem round about.
- 2 Kings 25:11 ἀρχιμάγειρος And Nabuzardan the captain of the guard removed the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the men who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.
- 2 Kings 25:12 ἀρχιμάγειρος But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vine-dressers and husbandmen.
- 2 Kings 25:15 ἀρχιμάγειρος And the captain of the guard took the fire-pans, and the gold and silver bowls.
- 2 Kings 25:18 ἀρχιμάγειρος And the captain of the guard took Saraias the high-priest, and Sophonias the second in order, and the three doorkeepers.
- 2 Kings 25:20 ἀρχιμάγειρος And Nabuzardan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Reblatha.
- Jeremiah 47:1 ἀρχιμάγειρος The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, after that Nabuzardan the captain of the guard had let him go out of Rama, when he had taken him in manacles in the midst of the captivity of Juda, even those who were carried to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 47:2 ἀρχιμάγειρος And the chief captain of the guard took him, and said to him, The Lord your God has pronounced all these evils upon this place:
- Jeremiah 47:5 ἀρχιμάγειρος But if not, depart; return to Godolias the son of Achicam, the son of Saphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed governor in the land of Juda, and dwell with him in the midst of the people in the land of Juda: to whatever places it seems good in your eyes to go, do you even go. And the captain of the guard made him presents, and let him go.
- Jeremiah 48:10 ἀρχιμάγειρος And Ismael brought back all the people that were left in Massepha, and the king's daughter, whom the captain of the guard had committed in charge to Godolias the son of Achicam: and he went away beyond the children of Ammon.
- Jeremiah 52:12 ἀρχιμάγειρος And in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nabuzardan the captain of the guard, who waited on the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem;
- Jeremiah 52:14 ἀρχιμάγειρος And the host of the Chaldeans that was with the captain of the guard pulled down all the wall of Jerusalem round about.
- Jeremiah 52:16 ἀρχιμάγειρος But the captain of the guard left the remnant of the people to be vinedressers and husbandmen.
- Jeremiah 52:19 ἀρχιμάγειρος and the basins, and the snuffers, and the oil-funnels, and the candlesticks, and the censers, and the cups, the golden, of gold, and the silver, of silver, the captain of the guard took away.
- Jeremiah 52:24 ἀρχιμάγειρος And the captain of the guard took the chief priest, and the second priest, and those that kept the way;
- Jeremiah 52:26 ἀρχιμάγειρος And Nabuzardan the captain of the king's guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Deblatha.
- Daniel 2:14 ἀρχιμάγειρος Then Daniel answered with counsel and prudence to Arioch the captain of the royal guard, who was gone forth to kill the wise men of Babylon; saying,
About this word
About this word
ἀρχιμάγειρος (archimágeiros), “chief cook, captain of guard,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 22 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →