Strong's #4755: strategos (pronounced strat-ay-gos')

from the base of 4756 and 71 or 2233; a general, i.e. (by implication or analogy) a (military) governor (praetor), the chief (praefect) of the (Levitical) temple-wardens:--captain, magistrate.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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stratēgos

1) the commander of an army

2) in the NT a civic commander, a governor

2a) the name the highest magistrate in the municipia or colonies; they had the power of administering justice in the less important cases

2b) of civil magistrates

3) captain of the temple, i.e. the commander of the Levites who kept guard in and around the temple

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from the base of G4756 and G71 or G2233

Citing in TDNT: 7:701, 1091

Usage:

This word is used 10 times:

 

Luke 22:4: "the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them."
Luke 22:52: "unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders,"
Acts 4:1: "priests, and the captain of the temple, and the"
Acts 5:24: "the high priest and the captain of the temple and"
Acts 5:26: "Then went the captain with the officers, and brought"
Acts 16:20: "brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being"
Acts 16:22: "them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded"
Acts 16:35: "when it was day, the magistrates sent the sergeants, saying,"
Acts 16:36: "to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now"
Acts 16:38: "these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that"