“a general, i.e. (by implication or analogy) a (military) governor (prætor), the chief (præfect) of the (Levitical) temple-wardens”
Definition
From Mounce's Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Strong’s Definition
a general, i.e. (by implication or analogy) a (military) governor (prætor), the chief (præfect) of the (Levitical) temple-wardens
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
a leader or commander of an army, general; a Roman praetor, provincial magistrate, Acts 16:20, 22, 35, 36, 38; στρατηγός τοῦ ἱεροῦ, the captain or prefect of the temple, the chief of the Levites who kept guard in and around the temple, Lk. 22:4, 52; Acts 4:1; 5:24, 26*
Translated in KJV as
Etymology
from the base of G4756 (στρατιά) and G71 (ἄγω) or G2233 (ἡγέομαι);
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