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