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Strong's #750 - ἀρχιποίμην
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- chief shepherd
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ἀρχι-ποίμην, ενος, ὁ,
chief shepherd, 1 Peter 5:4, Sm. 2 Kings 3:4, PLips. 97 xi 4 (iv A. D.).
ἀρχιποίμην, ἀρχιποίμενος (so L T Tr WH KC (after manuscripts), but Griesbach, others ἀρχιποίμην, ἀρχιποίμενος; cf. Lob. Paralip. p 195f; Stephanus Thesaurus, under the word; Chandler § 580), ὁ, a Biblical word (Test. xii Patr. test. Jud. § 8), chief shepherd: of Christ the head of the church, 1 Peter 5:4; see ποιμήν, b.
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**† ἀρχι -ποίμην , -ενος , ὁ ,
[in Sm.: 2 Kings 3:4*;]
found on an Egyptian mummy label (Deiss., LAE, 97 ff.; cf. MM, s.v.); used by modem Greeks of tribal chiefs; chief shepherd. of Christ, 1 Peter 5:4.†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
Deissmann (LAE, p. 97 ff.) has shown that this NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (1 Peter 5:4) can no longer be regarded as a Christian invention : it is found on the mummy label of an Egyptian peasant (Preisigke 3507), of the Roman period, which runs : Πλῆνις νεώτερος ἀρχιποίμενος (l. -μην) ἐβίωσεν ἐτῶν. . . ";Plenis, the younger, chief shepherd. Lived . . . years."; Cf. P Lips I. 97xi. 4 (A.D. 338) where a list of ποιμένες headed by Κάμητι ἀρχιποιμένι.
[Supplemental from 1930 edition]
Add PSI IV. 286.6 (iii/iv A.D.), note.
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