[B-Greek] hO ARXWN: ruler or prince

Weaks, Joe J.Weaks at tcu.edu
Sat Feb 24 16:34:41 EST 2007


It is the KJV that rendered ARCWN as "prince". This was picked up by the likes of NIV. There are some translations still today that seem in my anecdotal observation to have a method of not deviating from KJV if they don't have to.

I would think the best translation would be not to maintain this interpretive tradition, as is evidenced in the RSV and NRSV tradition by using "ruler".
Louw&Nida, Lidell&Scott don't mention "prince" as within the semantic domain of ARCWN either.
However, do note for reference that the Hebrew Shar is translated in the LXX as ARCWN in Is 9.6.

Joe Weaks
PhD (Cand), Brite Divinity School
Minister, Raytown Christian Church


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From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org on behalf of Stephen Baldwin
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Subject: [B-Greek] hO ARXWN: ruler or prince
 
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Another query if I may...

I've been trying to establish why hO ARXWN [TOU KOSMOU]  is translated as 
Prince in e.g John 12:31, 14:30, 16:11 (a good year ;-)).
There is [imho] a qualitative difference between a ruler and a prince and 
I've not yet read anything (Barrett, Morris, Westcott commentaries, 
TDNT/Kittel, BAG) that provides a convincing answer [to me] as to why we 
would use "prince" rather than "ruler".

Any insights on this would be appreciated.

Rgds
Steve


Stephen Baldwin
stbaldwi at hotmail.com

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