exilarch

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Definition of exilarch in English English dictionary

The leader of the Jews of the Babylonian exile

A grand rabbi

The term applied by Greeks to the head of a community of Jews in the diaspora

(Din) Exilarch (Aramaic: ריש גלותא Reish Galuta lit. "Head of the Exile") (Greek: Æchmalotarcha) refers to the leader of the Jews of the Babylonian exile. After the fall of the first Temple, the Greeks used the term to refer to the leader of the people. The people were called golah [Jeremiah 28: 6, 29: 1; Ezekiel passim] or galut [Jeremiah 29: 22]

Hyphenation

ex·i·larch

Etymology

() Ancient Greek.