ἀρχίφυλος
head of a tribe
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀρχίφυλος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 2 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.
- Deuteronomy 29:9 ἀρχίφυλος And you⌃ shall take heed to do all the words of this covenant, that you⌃ may understand all things that you⌃ shall do.
- Joshua 21:1 ἀρχίφυλος And the heads of the families of the sons of Levi drew near to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Naue, and to the heads of families of the tribes of Israel.
About this word
About this word
ἀρχίφυλος (archíphylos), “head of a tribe,” 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 2 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 →
