Lexicon stratégos: a general, governor Original Word: στρατηγός, οῦ, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: stratégos Phonetic Spelling: (strat-ay-gos') Short Definition: a general, magistrate, captain of the temple Definition: (a) a general or leader of the army, (b) a magistrate or governor, (c) captain of the temple. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as strateuó and from agóDefinitiona general, governor NASB Translationcaptain (3), chief magistrates (5), officers (2).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 4755: στρατηγόςστρατηγός, στρατηγοῦ, ὁ ( στρατός and ἄγω), from Herodotus down, the Sept. chiefly for סֶגֶן (only plural סְגָנִים); 1. the commander of an army. 2. in the N. T. a civic commander, a governor (the name of the duumviri or highest magistrates in the municipia and colonies; they had the power of administering justice in the less important cases; οἱ τῆς πόλεως στρατηγοί, Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 4, 49; of civil magistrates as early as Herodotus 5, 38; (see references in Meyer on Acts 16:20; Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 2f; cf. Farrar, St. Paul, i., excurs. xvi.)): plural (R. V. magistrates (after A. V.), with marginal reading Gr. praetors), Acts 16:20, 22, 35f (38). 3. στρατηγός τοῦ ἱεροῦ, 'captain of the temple' (A. V.), i. e. the commander of the Levites who kept guard in and around the temple (Josephus, Antiquities 20, 6, 2; (B. D., under the word , 3; Edersheim, The Temple etc., chapter vii., 2 edition, p. 119f)): Acts 4:1; Acts 5:24; plural Luke 22:52; simply (A. V. captain), Acts 5:26; Luke 22:4.
Strong's captain, magistrate. From the base of stratia and ago or hegeomai; a general, i.e. (by implication or analogy) a (military) governor (praetor), the chief (praefect) of the (Levitical) temple-wardens -- captain, magistrate. see GREEK stratia see GREEK ago see GREEK hegeomai |
