officer/magistrate

Greek Noun Male

στρατηγός, -οῦ, ὁ (στραός, ἄγω), [in LXX chiefly for סָגָן (always in pl.), שַׂר;] 1) a military commander, a general (Hdt, al.). 2) A civic commander, a governor, magistrate (Hdt, Xen, al.): Act.16:20, 22 16:35-36, 38. 3) The commander of the Levitical guard of the Temple, ὁ σ. τ. ἱεροῦ (EV, captain of the Temple): Act.4:1 5:24, 26; pl, Luk.22:4, 52. SYN.: ἄρχων (cf. EGT on Act.16:20; Ramsay, St. Paul, 217). (AS)

officer/magistrate

Greek Noun Male

στρᾰτηγ-ός, ὁ (the feminine in [Refs 5th c.BC+] and Doric dialect στρᾰτᾱγός [Refs 4th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect στρότᾱγος [Refs]:— leader or commander of an army, general, [Refs 7th c.BC+]; ἀνὴρ σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ναύαρχος (admiral), [Refs 5th c.BC+] 2) generally, commander, governor, πόλει κήρυγμα θεῖναι τὸν σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+] 3) with genitive, στρατηγοὶ τοῦ πεζοῦ [Refs 5th c.BC+] 4) metaphorically, παραλαβὼν. οἶνον σ. [Refs 4th c.BC+]; στρατηγοὶ κυνηγεσίων masters of hounds, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; so strategum te facio huic convivio, [Refs 3rd c.BC+] II) at Athens, the title of 10 officers elected by yearly vote to command the army and navy, and conduct the war-department at home, commanders in chief and ministers of war, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; when distinguished from ναύαρχος and ἵππαρχος, the στρατηγός is commander of the infantry, Decrees cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+]; χειροτονηθεὶς σ. ἐπὶ τὸ ναυτικόν, ἐπὶ τὰ ὅπλα, [Refs] II.2) also of chief magistrates of the cities of Asia Minor, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of many other Greek states, [Refs 4th c.BC+] II.3) in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, military and civil governor of a nome, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; also in other parts of the Ptolemaic empire, e.g. at Calynda in Caria, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; in Cyprus, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; σ. τῆς πόλεως at Alexandria, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; at Ptolemais, [Refs 1st c.BC+] II.4) σ. ὕπατος consul, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; also ς. alone, [Refs 2nd c.BC+] alone, see at {ὕπατο; σ. ἀνθύπατος} proconsul, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἑξαπέλεκυς σ. praetor, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; used of the praetor urbanus, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; ς. alone, = praetor, [Refs 1st c.BC+]: also of the duumviri or chief magistrates of Roman colonies, as of Philippi, [NT]: later of the Comes Orientis, [Refs 4th c.AD+] II.5) an officer who had the custody of the Temple at Jerusalem, ὁ σ. τοῦ ἱεροῦ [NT+1st c.AD+] II.6) νυκτερινὸς σ. superintendent of police at Alexandria, [Refs 1st c.BC+] II.7) ={φαλαγγάρχης} (which see), [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

Greek

Noun Masculine

a general, i.e. (by implication or analogy) a (military) governor (prætor), the chief (præfect) of the (Levitical) temple-wardens; captain, magistrate; from the base of g4756 (στρατιά) and g71 (ἄγω) or g2233 (ἡγέομαι)