Strong's Concordance
Pilate
Pila=tov
Pilatos (of Latin origin)
Strong's Number: 4091
Pilate = "armed with a spear"
the sixth Roman procurator of Judah and Samaria who ordered Christ to be
crucified
Pontius
Po/ntiov
Pontios (of Latin origin)
Strong's Number: 4194
Pontius = "of the sea"
the sixth Roman procurator of Judah and Samaria who ordered Christ to be
crucified
Governor
Strong's Number: 2232 h(gemwñn
Word Origin
h(gemwñn from (2233)
Phonetic Spelling
Hegemon hayg-em-ohn'
Parts of Speech TDNT
Noun Masculine None
Definition
a leader of any kind, a guide, ruler, prefect, president, chief, general,
commander, sovereign
a "legatus Caesaris", an officer administering a province in the name and with
the authority of the Roman emperor the governor of a province a procurator,
an officer who was attached to a proconsul or a proprietor and had charge of
the imperial revenues in causes relating to these revenues he administered
justice. In the smaller provinces also, which were so to speak appendages of the
greater, he discharged the functions of governor of the province; and such was the
relation of the procurator of Judaea to the governor of Syria.
first, leading, chief of a principal town as the capital of the region
Translated Words
KJV (22) - governor, 19; prince, 1; ruler, 2;
NAS (19) - governor, 14; governor's, 1; governors, 4;
Pontius
Pilate
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