Archippos

Gender Masculine
Usage Ancient Greek [1], Biblical Greek [2]
Scripts Ἄρχιππος(Ancient Greek)

Meaning & History

Means "master of horses" from the Greek elements ἀρχός (archos) meaning "master" and ἵππος (hippos) meaning "horse". In the New Testament it is borne by a man mentioned in the epistles (spelled as Archippus, the Latinized form, in the English version).

Related Names

Rootsarchos + hippos
VariantArchippus(Ancient Greek)
Feminine FormArchippe(Ancient Greek)
Other Languages & CulturesArchippus(Biblical) Archippus(Biblical Latin) Arkhip(Russian)

Categories

animals, fauna, horses, leadership, master

Sources & References

  1. Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, available from https://search.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/browse.html?facet-nymRef=Ἄρχιππος&facet-nymRef=῎Αρχιππος.
  2. Strong, James. The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, entry g751, available from https://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=g751.
Entry updated October 6, 2024