Prince or Princess?

[dessert]

What did the word prince in the bible really mean to some one who was elected prince? What does the word prince mean in hebrew or greek or arabic or for that matter english in the translations? Did princess mean the same? Jesus is called the prince of peace and what does the prince of the principalities of the airs mean other than the satan? dessert

 

[jbuck919]

Who knows and, frankly, and forgive me, who cares? Honorific titles of royalty and nobility exist in virtually all languages, and as quaint as they are, have no place in modern democratic society. They are, or should be, strictly historic, with all respect to the British so-called royal family.

To answer the part that I know about, the Latin word for “prince” (a word taken directly from French into English in the first place) is “princeps,” plural “principes.” But the back-translation of Antoine de St-Exupery’s The Little Prince (Le petit prince) is “Regulus,” the diminutive of Rex, meaning “little king.” Go figure.

 

[Deacon_Joseph]

The term Prince is used in the Book of Numbers, Chapter seven. It says they were heads of ancestral houses, and they also supervised the census after they left Egypt (Nm 7:2).

The 12 scouts that entered Canaan were also princes (Nm 13:2), and it gives a list of who and from what tribe.

As far as Jesus being called the Prince of Peace, He called Himself that in the Gospels. Isaiah 9:5 calls the coming Messiah the Prince of Peace. It is also mentioned in The Book of Haggai, Chapter 2, verse 9: ‘Greater will be the future glory of this house than the former, says the Lord of hosts; And in this place I will give you peace, says the Lord of hosts.’ The last example doesn’t state it directly, this is an example of oral tradition.