ἡγέομαι

ἡγοῦμαι; perfect ἥγημαι; 1 aorist ἡγησάμην; (from ἄγω (cf. Curtius, p. 688)); deponent middle; from Homer down;
1. to lead, i. e.
a. to go before;
b. to be a leader; to rule, command; to have authority over: in the N. T. so only in the present participle ἡγούμενος, a prince, of regal power (Ezek 43:7 for מֶלֶך; Sir. 17:17), Mt 2:6; a (royal) governor, viceroy, Acts 7:10; chief, Lk 22:26 (opposed to ὁ διακονῶν); leading as respects influence, controlling in counsel, ἐν τισί, among any, Acts 15:22; with the genitive of the person over whom one rules, so of the overseers or leaders of Christian churches: Heb 13:7, Heb 13:17, Heb 13:24 (οἴκου, 2 Chr 31:13; τῶν πατριῶν, 1 Esdr. 5:65 (66), 67 (68); τῆς πόλεως, Judg 9:51 Alex.; a military leader, 1 Macc. 9:30; 2 Macc. 14:16; used also in Greek writings of any kind of a leader, chief, commander, Sophocles Phil. 386; often in Polybius; Diodorus 1, 4 and 72; Lucian, Alex. 44; others); with the genitive of the thing, τοῦ λόγου, the leader in speech, chief speaker, spokesman: Acts 14:12 of Mercury, who is called also τοῦ λόγου ἡγεμών in Jamblichus' de myster., at the beginning
2. (like the Latinduco) equivalent to to consider, deem, account, think: with two accusatives, one of the objects, the other of the predicate, Acts 26:2; Phm 2:3, Phm 2:6 (on which see ἁρπαγμός, Phm 2:2 (Winer's Grammar, § 44, 3 c.)); Phm 3:7 (cf. Buttmann, 59 (51); Winer's Grammar, 274 (258)); 1 Tim 1:12; 1 Tim 6:1; Heb 10:29; Heb 11:11, Heb 11:26; 2 Pet 1:13; 2 Pet 2:13; 2 Pet 3:9, 2 Pet 3:15. τινα ὡς τινα, 2 Thess 3:15 (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 65, 1 a.); τινα ὑπερεκπερισσοῦ, to esteem one exceedingly, 1 Thess 5:13 (περί πολλοῦ, Herodotus 2, 115; περί πλειστου, Thucydides 2, 89); with accusative of the thing followed by ὅταν, Jas 1:2; ἀναγκαῖον, followed by an infinitive, 2 Cor 9:5; Phm 2:25; δίκαιον, followed by an infinitive, 2 Pet 1:13; followed by an accusative with an infinitive, Phm 3:8. (Compare: διηγέομαι, ἐκηγέομαι, διηγέομαι, ἐξηγέομαι, προηγέομαι.