English Explanatory Dictionary

exilarch

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The leader of the Jews of the Babylonian exile.
  2. The head of a community of Jews in the diaspora.

Word forms

exilarch exilarchs

Etymology

From exile + -arch, a calque of Biblical Hebrew רֹאשׁ גָּלוּת (rôš galûṯ).

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