Quick Definition
ἀρχηγός, οῦ, ὁ n.m. originator, author, founder
Strong's Definition
from 746 and 71; a chief leader
KJV Usage: author, captain, prince
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | -οῦ | ἄρχω + ἄγω
68.2 · Aspect · Begin, Start
initiator, founder, originator one who causes something to begin For another interpretation of ἀρχηγός in HEB 2:10, see ἀρχηγός[b] 36.6.
36.6 · Guide, Discipline, Follow · Guide, Lead
pioneer leader, founding leader a person who as originator or founder of a movement continues as the leader In order to indicate clearly the significance of ἀρχηγός in HEB 2:10, it may be important to employ a translation such as ‘who established a way of salvation and leads people to it.’ But it is also possible to understand ἀρχηγός in HEB 2:10 as meaning only the ‘initiator’ or ‘founder’ (see ἀρχηγός[a] 68.2).
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Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἀρχηγός archēgos 4x
a chief, leader, prince, Acts 5:31; a prime author, Acts 3:15; Heb. 2:10; 12:2*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἀρχηγός, -όν,
[in LXX for רֹאשׁ, נָשִׂיא etc.;]
beginning, originating: more freq., as subst.; founder, author (Lat. auchor; so sometimes in π., v. MM, s.v.; Milligan, NTD, 75): Ac 3:15 (R, mg.), He 2:10 (R, txt.; but v. Westc., in l., and Page, Ac 3:15).
prince, leader (so in MGr., v. Kennedy, Sources, 153): Ac 3:15 (R, txt.) 5:31, He 2:10 (cf. R, mg.) 12:2 (Cremer, 117).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἀρχηγός. To determine between ‘‘ founder” and “‘leader” in Heb 2?°, 127, Ac 315, 5%!, is a complex question which would carry us beyond the limits of a lexical note. But our few citations go to emphasize the closeness of correspondence with actor, which it evidently translates in a Proconsul’s edict, Sy// 3163 (ii/B.C.) ἐγεγόνει ἀρχηγὸς τῆς ὅλης ocvyxtcews,!? τὸν yeyoνότα ἀρχηγὸν ἰτ]ῶν πραχθέντων. So P Oxy I. 4158 (iii/iv A.D.), where a crowd shouts repeatedly in honour of the prytanis, ἀρχηγὲ τῶν ἀγαθῶν, ‘source of our blessings,” auctor bonorum. The phrase is found five centuries earlier in the Rosetta stone, OGZS go? . . . anniversaries which are πολλῶν ἀγαθῶν ἀρχηγοὶ (πᾶσι. In OG/S 212! Apollo is ἀ. τοῦ [γένους] of Seleucus Nicator (B.c. 306-280) whose mother was said to have dreamed that she conceived by Apollo: so in 219° of his son Antiochus I. (Soter). P Oxy X. 124 rit 35 (ji/a.D., lit.) a. φόνου ‘‘ the first shedder.” The other meaning ‘‘leader” is seen in Xazbe/l 585 (Gaul) ἱερέων ἀρχηγοῦ, of a high priest of Mithras. So still in MGr.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἀρχηγός (archēgos) — founder. ἀρχηγός, Doric dialect ἀρχᾱγός, όν, beginning, originating, λόγος ἀρχηγὸς κακῶν[Refs 5th c.BC+]; primary, leading, chief, Τροίας ἀ. τιμάς[Refs 4th c.BC+]
II. as substantive, founder, of a tutelary hero, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; as feminine, ancestral heroine, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; founder of a family, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.2. prince, chief, Δία ἀ. θεῶν[Refs 5th c.BC+]; chief captain, leader, Ἑλλάνων[Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.3. first cause, originator, κοπίδων[Refs 5th c.BC+]; φόνου[NT+4th c.BC+]the originating power, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; primary, fundamental, ἀρχηγὸν ἡ φωνή[Refs 1st c.BC+]