Strong's #2232: hegemon (pronounced hayg-em-ohn')

from 2233; a leader, i.e. chief person (or figuratively, place) of a province:--governor, prince, ruler.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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hēgemōn

1) a leader of any kind, a guide, ruler, prefect, president, chief, general, commander, sovereign

1a) a "legatus Caesaris" , an officer administering a province in the name and with the authority of the Roman emperor

1a1) the governor of a province

1b) a procurator, an officer who was attached to a proconsul or a proprietor and had charge of the imperial revenues

1b1) 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.

1c) first, leading, chief

1c1) of a principal town as the capital of the region

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from G2233

Usage:

This word is used 22 times:

 

Matthew 2:6: "the least among the princes of Judah: for out of thee"
Matthew 10:18: "ye shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake,"
Matthew 27:2: "to Pontius Pilate the governor."
Matthew 27:11: "stood before the governor: and the governor asked"
Matthew 27:11: "governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art"
Matthew 27:14: "a word; insomuch that the governor marveled greatly."
Matthew 27:15: "at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people"
Matthew 27:21: "The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of"
Matthew 27:23: "And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done?"
Matthew 27:27: "the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the"
Matthew 28:14: "And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade"
Mark 13:9: "ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake,"
Luke 20:20: "and authority of the governor."
Luke 21:12: "before kings and rulers for my name's sake."
Acts 23:24: "and bring him safe unto Felix the governor."
Acts 23:26: "Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting."
Acts 23:33: "the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him."
Acts 23:34: "And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what"
Acts 24:1: "who informed the governor against Paul."
Acts 24:10: "Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered,"
Acts 26:30: "rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with"
1 Peter 2:14: "Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment"