Word Summary
hekatontarchēs: a centurion, a captain of one hundred men
Original Word: ἑκατοντάρχηςTransliteration: hekatontarchēs
Phonetic Spelling: (hek-at-on-tar'-khace)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a centurion, a captain of one hundred men
Meaning: a centurion, a captain of one hundred men
Strong's Concordance
centurion.
Or hekatontarchos hek-at-on'-tar-khos; from hekaton and archo; the captain of one hundred men -- centurion.
see GREEK hekaton
see GREEK archo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1543: ἑκατοντάρχηςἑκατοντάρχης,
Ἑκατοντάρχου,
ὁ (
ἑκατόν and
ἄρχω; on the terminations
ἀρχῆς and
ἀρχός see the full exposition in
Winers Grammar, 61 (60); cf.
Buttmann, 73 (64); Bornemann, Schol. ad Luc., p. 151f; (
Tdf. Proleg., p. 117;
WHs Appendix, p. 156f)),
a centurion:
Matthew 8:(5 and 8
Tdf.), 13
G L T Tr WH; (
Matthew 27:54 T);
Luke 7:(2 (?)), 6
T WH; (
Luke 23:47 T Tr WH);
Acts 10:1, 22;
Acts 21:32 L T Tr WH; (
Acts 22:26 L T WH);
L T Tr WH, G L T Tr WH, L T Tr WH; genitive plural T WH in Acts 23:17, 23. (Aeschylus quoted in Athen. 1, p. 11 d.; Herodotus 7, 81; Dionysius Halicarnassus, Plutarch, others). See the following word. ἑκατόνταρχοςἑκατόνταρχος, Ἑκατοντάρχου, ὁ, equivalent to ἑκατοντάρχης, which see: Matthew 8:5, 8 (in 5, 8, Tdf. ἑκατοντάρχης), Rec.; (Tdf. ἑκατοντάρχης); Luke 7:2, 6 (T WH ἑκατοντάρχης); (T Tr WH ἑκατοντάρχης); Acts 21:32 R G; (L T WH ἑκατοντάρχης); Acts 27:6 (R G, Rec., R G), also Rec.; genitive plural, Acts 23:17 and R G L Tr. (Xenophon, Cyril 5, 3, 41; Plutarch, others) (Cf. Meisterhans, p. 53f.) STRONGS NT 1543a: ἐκβαίνωἐκβαίνω: 2 aorist ἐξεβην; (from Homer down); to go out: Hebrews 11:15 L T Tr WH.