Lexical Summary archaios: original, ancient Original Word: ἀρχαῖοςTransliteration: archaios Phonetic Spelling: (ar-khah'-yos) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: original, ancient Meaning: original, ancient Strong's Concordance of old, original. From arche; original or primeval -- (them of) old (time). see GREEK arche Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 744: ἀρχαῖοςἀρχαῖος, ἀρχαῖα, ἀρχαῖον (from ἀρχή beginning, hence) properly, that has been from the beginning, original, primeval, old, ancient, used of men, things, times, conditions: Luke 9:8, 19; Acts 15:7, 21; Acts 21:16; 2 Peter 2:5; Revelation 12:9; Revelation 20:2; οἱ ἀρχαιοι the ancients, the early Israelites: Matthew 5:21, 27 (Rec.),33; τά ἀρχαῖα the man's previous moral condition: 2 Corinthians 5:17. (In Greek writings from Pindar and Herodotus down.) |