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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Captains

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

119exact KJV occurrences 113Old Testament 6New Testament 20books containing the word 14mapped Strong's IDs 118occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Exodus 14:7

And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 19:18

That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where captains appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH7991
שָׁלִישׁ

shâlîysh · shaw-leesh'

8 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a triple, i.e. (as a musical instrument) a triangle (or perhaps rather three-stringed lute); also (as an indefinite, great quantity) a three-fold measure (perhaps a treble ephah); also (as an officer) a general of the third rank (upward, i.e. the highest)

Strong's KJV usage: captain, instrument of musick, (great) lord, (great) measure, prince, three (from the margin).

Strong's first: Exodus 14:7Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 8:9

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HebrewH7218
רֹאשׁ

rôʼsh · roshe

6 times translated as this KJV form598 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)

Strong's KJV usage: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, × every (man), excellent, first, forefront, (be-)head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), × lead, × poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.

Strong's first: Deuteronomy 29:10Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 12:20

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GreekG5506
χιλίαρχος

chilíarchos · khil-ee'-ar-khos

4 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences

the commander of a thousand soldiers ("chiliarch"; i.e. colonel

Strong's KJV usage: :--(chief, high) captain.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Mark 6:21Strong's last: Revelation 19:18

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GreekG4755
στρατηγός

stratēgós · strat-ay-gos'

2 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences

a general, i.e. (by implication or analogy) a (military) governor (prætor), the chief (præfect) of the (Levitical) temple-wardens

Strong's KJV usage: :--captain, magistrate.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Luke 22:4Strong's last: Luke 22:52

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HebrewH3746
כָּרִי

kârîy · kaw-ree'

2 times translated as this KJV form2 total Strong's occurrences

a

a life-guardsman

Strong's KJV usage: captains, Cherethites (from the margin).

Strong's first: 2 Kings 11:4Strong's last: 2 Kings 11:19

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HebrewH441
אַלּוּף

ʼallûwph · al-loof'

1 times translated as this KJV form69 total Strong's occurrences

a-m

familiar; a friend, also gentle; hence, a bullock (as being tame; applied, although masculine, to a cow); and so, a chieftain (as notable, like neat cattle)

Strong's KJV usage: captain, duke, (chief) friend, governor, guide, ox.

Strong's first: Jeremiah 13:21Strong's last: Jeremiah 13:21

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HebrewH3733
כַּר

kar · kar

1 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a ram (as full-grown and fat), including a battering-ram (as butting); hence, a meadow (as for sheep); also a pad or camel's saddle (as puffed out)

Strong's KJV usage: captain, furniture, lamb, (large) pasture, ram. See also 1033, 3746.

Strong's first: Ezekiel 21:22Strong's last: Ezekiel 21:22

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HebrewH5057
נָגִיד

nâgîyd · naw-gheed'

1 times translated as this KJV form44 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a commander (as occupying the front), civil, military or religious; generally (abstractly, plural), honorable themes

Strong's KJV usage: captain, chief, excellent thing, (chief) governor, leader, noble, prince, (chief) ruler.

Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 11:11Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 11:11

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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119 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

2 Samuel 24:4
H8269

Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.

2 Samuel 24:4
H8269

Notwithstanding the king's word prevailed against Joab, and against the captains of the host. And Joab and the captains of the host went out from the presence of the king, to number the people of Israel.

1 Kings 1:25
H8269

For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, God save king Adonijah.

1 Kings 2:5
H8269

Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.

1 Kings 9:22
H7991

But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.

1 Kings 15:20
H8269

So Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of the hosts which he had against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abelbethmaachah, and all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

1 Kings 20:24
H6346

And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms:

1 Kings 22:31
H8269

But the king of Syria commanded his thirty and two captains that had rule over his chariots, saying, Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel.

1 Kings 22:32
H8269

And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel. And they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.

1 Kings 22:33
H8269

And it came to pass, when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.

2 Kings 1:14
H8269

Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.

2 Kings 8:21
H8269

So Joram went over to Zair, and all the chariots with him: and he rose by night, and smote the Edomites which compassed him about, and the captains of the chariots: and the people fled into their tents.

2 Kings 9:5
H8269

And when he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to thee, O captain. And Jehu said, Unto which of all us? And he said, To thee, O captain.

2 Kings 10:25
H7991

And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.

2 Kings 10:25
H7991

And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.

2 Kings 11:4
H3746

And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and shewed them the king's son.

2 Kings 11:9
H8269

And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

2 Kings 11:10
H8269

And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that were in the temple of the LORD.

2 Kings 11:15
H8269

But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the LORD.

2 Kings 11:19
H3746

And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of the LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.

2 Kings 25:23
H8269

And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.

2 Kings 25:26
H8269

And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.

1 Chronicles 4:42
H7218

And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.

1 Chronicles 11:11
H7991

And this is the number of the mighty men whom David had; Jashobeam, an Hachmonite, the chief of the captains: he lifted up his spear against three hundred slain by him at one time.

1 Chronicles 11:15
H7218

Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

captain

CAPTAIN, noun

1. Literally, a head or chief officer; appropriately, the military officer who commands a company, whether of infantry, cavalry, artillery or matrosses.

2. The commander of a ship of war, or of a merchantman. But the latter is often called a master.

3. The commander of a military band, a sense that occurs in the sciptures; as a captain of fifty.

4. A man skilled in war or military affairs; as, Lord Wellington is a great captain

5. A chief commander. Shak. But in this sense rarely used, but in composition.

CAPTAIN-GENERAL, is the commander in chief of an army, or of the militia. The governor of a state is Captain-General of the militia.

CAPTAIN-LIEUTENANT, is an officer, who with the rank of captain and pay of lieutenant, commands a company or troop. Thus the colonel of a regiment being the captain of the first company, that company is commanded by a Captain-Lieutenant.

CAPTAIN-BANSHAW, or Capudan Bashaw, in Turkey, is the High Admiral.

CAPTAIN, adjective Chief; valiant.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.

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