G2232Greekἡgemónos

ἡγεμόνος

a leader, i.e., chief person (or figuratively, place) of a province

20
Total Occurrences
5
Books
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Old Testament
20
New Testament

Detailed Definition

  • 1a leader of any kind, a guide, ruler, prefect, president, chief, general, commander, sovereign
  • 2a "legatus caesaris" (an officer administering a province in the name and with the authority of the roman emperor)
  • 3a procurator, an officer who was attached to a proconsul or a proprietor and had charge of the imperial revenues
  • 4of a principal town as the capital of the region

Etymology & Derivation

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Scholarly Notes

in the smaller provinces also, which were so to speak appendages of the greater, he discharged the functions of governor of the province; and such was the relation of the procurator of judaea to the governor of syria.

See Also

G2233