[ad. L. alabarch-es, a. Gr. ἀλαβάρχ-ης of unkn. origin.] Title of the chief magistrate of the Jews at Alexandria under the Ptolemies, and Roman emperors.
1727. Lardner, Wks. (1838), I. 87. Philo’s brother Alexander was alabarch of the Jews in Egypt.
1879. Farrar, St. Paul, I. 227. Ethnarch, as well as Alabarch, was a title of Jewish governors in heathen cities.
