Word

πραιτώριον

praitṓrion · G4232 · Greek · 8 occurrences

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PalaceBuildings and Structures103 verses

Meanings

palace, fortress

The dwelling of a king or ruler; usually larger and more elaborate than the dwelling of an average person

Examples
Matthew 27:27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort to Him.
Mark 15:16 Now the soldiers took Him away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium), and they called together the whole Roman cohort.
John 18:28 Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium, and it was early; and they themselves did not enter the Praetorium, so that they would not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.
group of soldiers, palace guard

A detachment of soldiers serving as the palace guard

Examples
Philippians 1:13 so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the praetorian guard and to everyone else,

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἩρώδηςHerod 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ὅςwho, which, that 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

7 occurrences in 2 groups

εἰςto 10
ἐνin 3

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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Semantic domains 2 entries

Group of soldiers, palace guard55.12: By extension, the noun can name the body of soldiers stationed at the governor's residence. Matthew's account of the mockery of Jesus uses this term: “Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort to Him” (Matthew 27:27, where the underlying noun names both the building and the assembled garrison there).
Palace, fortress7.7: Most literally, the noun names the governor's official residence or headquarters. Mark's account of the same episode identifies the location: “Now the soldiers took Him away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium), and they called together the whole Roman cohort” (Mark 15:16).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πραιτωριου, τό, a Latin word,praetorium (neuter of the adjectivepraetorius used…

πραιτωριου, τό, a Latin word,praetorium (neuter of the adjectivepraetorius used substantively); the word denotes
1. 'headquarters' in a Roman camp, the tent of the commander-in-chief.
2. the palace in which the governor or procurator of a province resided, to which use the Romans were accustomed to appropriate the palaces already existing, and formerly dwelt in by the kings or princes (at Syracuse illa domus praetoria, quae regis Hieronis fuit, Cicero, Verr. 2:5, 12, 30); at Jerusalem it was that magnificent palace which Herod the Great had built for himself, and which the Roman procurators seem to have occupied whenever they came from Caesarea to Jerusalem to transact public business: Mt 27:27; Mk 15:16; Jn 18:28, Jn 18:33; Jn 19:9; cf. Philo, leg. ad Gaium, § 38; Josephus, b. j. 2, 14, 8; also the one at Caesarea, Acts 23:35. Cf. Keim, iii, p. 359f. (English translation, vi., p. 79; B. D. under the word ).
3. the camp of praetorian soldiers established by Tiberius (Suetonius 37): Phm 1:13. Cf. Winers RWB, under the word Richthaus; (Lightfoots Commentary on Philippians, pp. 99ff) rejects, as destitute of evidence, the various attempts to give a local sense to the word in Philippians, the passage cited, and vindicates the meaning praetorian guard (so R. V.)).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Buildings7 occurrences Army1 occurrence

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