Lexicon anthupatos: a consul, proconsul Original Word: ἀνθύπατος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: anthupatos Phonetic Spelling: (anth-oo'-pat-os) Short Definition: a proconsul Definition: a proconsul. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom anti and hupatos (highest) Definitiona consul, proconsul NASB Translationproconsul (4), proconsuls (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 446: ἀνθύπατοςἀνθύπατος, ἀνθυπάτου, ὁ (see the preceding word), proconsul: Acts 13:7, 8, 12; Acts 18:12 L T Tr WH; Acts 19:38. The emperor Augustus divided the Roman provinces into senatorial and imperial. The former were presided over by proconsuls; the latter were administered by legates of the emperor, sometimes called also propraetors. ( Polybius, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Lucian, Plutarch, and often in Dio Cassius) ( B. D. under the word ; Alex.'s Kitto under the word Province; especially Lightfoot in The Contemp. Rev. for 1878, p. 280f.)
Strong's deputy, proconsul. From anti and a superlative of huper; instead of the highest officer, i.e. (specially) a Roman proconsul -- deputy. see GREEK anti see GREEK huper |
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