αφέντης : noun or participle ? HELP!

[revjcsd]

Is αφέντης a noun (master, ruler) or participle (having dismissed)?

αφέντες: Nominative plural form of αφέντης (aféntis).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B1%C ... F%82#Greek

Mark 4:36
ἀφέντες τὸν ὄχλον
having dismissed Verb - aorist, participle, active, nominative, masculine, plural
https://biblehub.com/interlinear/mark/4-36.htm

[paveln]

It says here that αφέντης is a masculine noun:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B1%C ... E%B7%CF%82
And that it's a Byzantine Greek word. It didn't exist at the time of the New Testament.

[jeidsath]

It existed, but was spelled αὐθέντης back when the diphthong was pronounced, and actually shows up once in the LXX. Plural would have been with -αι though.

There is a NT use of the verb αὐθεντεῖν, and I once saw the argument made that Paul doesn't allow women to "murder" men in church, preferring them to stay silent instead.