The meaning of Principal in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)

prin'-si-pal: Appears in the King James Version as a translation of nine Hebrew words (fewer in the Revised Version (British and American)), in one case (Isaiah 28:25) being used quite wrongly and in II Kings 25:19 (Jeremiah 52:25); I Chronicles 24:31 gives a wrong sense (all corrected in the Revised Version (British and American)). In I Kings 4:5, "principal officer" (the American Standard Revised Version "chief minister") is an arbitrary translation of kohen to avoid "priest" (so the English Revised Version; compare II Samuel 8:18).

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