The corpus record

χειρᾰγωγ-ός

cheiragogos

leading, guiding

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Where it lives

Acts 1 · 0.56/10k

What it meant

χειρᾰγωγ-ός · cheiragōg-os — LSJ

leading, guiding

leading, guiding, χ. ἀρχή Supp.Epigr. 8.464 (Egypt).

2 leader, guide

Subst., leader, guide, ἔχει . . χ. τὸν πλοῦτον ὁ γέρων Philem. 127; cf. Act.Ap. 13.11, Plu. An seni 2.794d: τοῦ βίου τυφλὴ χ. (of Τύχη), ib. Fort. 98b; θεοῖς ἕπεσθαι χειραγωγοῖς ἡγούμενοι Lib. Or. 61.4.

In the wild

χειραγωγούς · cheiragōgous New Testament, Acts 13.11 (DIORISIS sentence 449)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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