Strong's Concordance
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.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
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
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
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
Forms and Transliterations
στρατηγέ στρατηγοι στρατηγοί στρατηγοὶ στρατηγοις στρατηγοίς στρατηγοῖς στρατηγόν στρατηγος στρατηγός στρατηγὸς στρατηγους στρατηγούς στρατηγοὺς στρατηγών strategoi strategoì stratēgoi stratēgoì strategois strategoîs stratēgois stratēgoîs strategos strategòs stratēgos stratēgòs strategous strategoùs stratēgous stratēgoùs
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