Notes on "ruler of the synagogue's house"

In Luke 8:49 it uses the phrase "ruler of the synagogue's house". It is from the Greek, Archisunagogos - "ruler of the synagogue. It was his duty to select the readers or teachers in the synagogue, to examine the discourses of the public speakers, and to see that all things were done with decency and in accordance with ancestral usage." Archisunagogos - KJV Greek Lexicon

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Luke 8:49

49 While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue's house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.

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