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τετραρχέω

to rule tetrarchy

G5075 Strong's Greek
tetrarchéō Transliteration
/tet-rar-kheh'-o/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 3 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

At its core, τετραρχεω (tetrarchéō) means “to rule tetrarchy.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. The word gravitates to Luke (100%). Its lone occurrence is Luke 3:1. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
tetrarch
Modern gloss
to rule tetrarchy
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current Thayer scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's G5075 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.

These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
Luke 3:1
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Luke 3:1.
#2,203
by frequency
Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 1 · 100%
  • Acts 0 · 0%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 0 · 0%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

By traditional corpus

Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.

  • Gospels 1 verse · 100%
  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 100%

How translations render this word

Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).

  • King James Version: Tetrarch 2×
  • American Standard Version: Tetrarch 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Tetrarch 3×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Being tetrarch 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G5075 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Tetrarch” 2×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders G5075 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Tetrarch” 2×

Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders G5075 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Tetrarch” 3×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders G5075 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Being tetrarch” 3×

Senses in Thayer's

The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.

  1. to be a governor of a tetrarchy, be tetrarch of a region

Word origin

Derived from τετραρχης (tetrárchēs) (G5076) — tetrarch.

Part of speech: Verb

From G5076 ; to be a tetrarch : - (be) tetrarch.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.

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