Word

χιλίαρχος

chilíarchos · G5506 · Greek · 21 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. commanding officer, general, chiliarch

    A military officer, normally in command of a thousand soldiers

    Examples

    Mark 6:21 An opportune day came when Herod, on his birthday, held a banquet for his nobles and military commanders, and the leading people of Galilee;

    John 18:12 So the Roman cohort, the commander, and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound Him,

    Acts 21:31 While they were intent on killing him, a report came up to the commander of the Roman cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

How it’s used In 7 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

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

10 occurrences in 11 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

It is given or told toIndirect object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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In the other Testament 1 word
אַלּוּף ʼallûwph · H441 · chief, meek, tame
אַלּוּף (ʼallûwph, H441) denotes a military or tribal leader/chief with semantic range including 'captain' and 'governor,' rendering into Greek as χιλίαρχος (chilíarchos, G5506) when specifically denoting a military commander of rank comparable to a Roman tribune or chiliarch.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Commanding officer, general, chiliarch55.15
Acts 21:31 recounts that as the crowd sought to kill Paul, “a report came up to the commander of the Roman cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion”.
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

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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