κεντυρίων
kentyríōn · G2760 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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centurion, captain
A Roman officer in command of about one hundred men
ExamplesMark 15:39 And when the centurion, who was standing right in front of Him, saw that He died in this way, he said, “Truly this Man was the Son of God!”
Mark 15:44 Now Pilate wondered if He was dead by this time, and summoning the centurion, he questioned him as to whether He was already dead.
Mark 15:45 And after learning this from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- παρίστημιto stand by, to present 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἔπωto say 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- προσκαλέομαιto call to, to summon 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀπόfrom 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἑκατοντάρχης hekatontárchēs · G1543 · centurion, captain
- Both terms denote the identical Roman military rank of centurion — one a Latin loanword, the other a native Greek calque for the same office. They refer to the same specific referent and would have been used interchangeably by native speakers to denote the same officer rank, differing only in etymological origin, not in reference.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Centurion, captain55.16
- κεντυρίων designates a Roman military officer commanding a company of soldiers. Mark 15:39 records that “the centurion, who was standing right in front of Him, saw that He died in this way,” and responded, “Truly this Man was the Son of God,” his rank giving weight to his testimony as an eyewitness at the cross.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κεντυρίωνος, ὁ, a Latin word, a centurion: Mk 15:39, Mk 15:44f (Polybius 6, 24, 5.)
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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