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And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.
Read in context →Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
Read in context →5 occurrences in 5 verses.
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stratēgós · strat-ay-gos'
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.
Strong's first: Acts 16:20Strong's last: Acts 16:38
Open full G4755 profile →archḗ · ar-khay'
(properly abstract) a commencement, or (concretely) chief (in various applications of order, time, place, or rank)
Strong's KJV usage: :--beginning, corner, (at the, the) first (estate), magistrate, power, principality, principle, rule.
Strong's first: Luke 12:11Strong's last: Luke 12:11
Open full G746 profile →peitharchéō · pi-tharkh-eh'-o
to be persuaded by a ruler, i.e. (genitive case) to submit to authority; by analogy, to conform to advice
Strong's KJV usage: :--hearken, obey (magistrates).
Strong's first: Titus 3:1Strong's last: Titus 3:1
Open full G3980 profile →shᵉphaṭ · shef-at'
to judge
Strong's KJV usage: magistrate.
Strong's first: Ezra 7:25Strong's last: Ezra 7:25
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And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.
And when they bring you unto the synagogues, and unto magistrates, and powers, take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall say:
And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore depart, and go in peace.
And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.
Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
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MAG'ISTRATE, noun [Latin magistratus, from magister, master; magis, major, and ster, Teutonic steora, a director; steoran, to steer; the principal director.] A public civil officer, invested with the executive government of some branch of it. In this sense, a king is the highest or first magistrate as is the President of the United States. But the word is more particularly applied to subordinate officers, as governors, intendants, prefects, mayors, justices of the peace, and the like.
The magistrate must have his reverence; the laws their authority.
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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