Strong's Number 4755

Transliteration:
strategos {strat-ay-gos'}
Word Origin:
from the base of 4756 and 71 or 2233
TDNT:
7:701,1091
Part of Speech:
noun masculine
Usage in the KJV:
captain 5, magistrate 5

Total: 10
Definition:
  1. the commander of an army
  2. in the NT a civic commander, a governor
    1. the name the highest magistrate in the municipia or colonies; they had the power of administering justice in the less important cases
    2. of civil magistrates
  3. captain of the temple, i.e. the commander of the Levites who kept guard in and around the temple