Exodus 30:23
Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
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Principal
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Acts 25:23
And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.
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4 occurrences in 4 verses.
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רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh · roshe
5 times translated as this KJV form598 total Strong's occurrences
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.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 30:23Strong's last: Nehemiah 11:17
Open full H7218 profile →אַדִּיר
ʼaddîyr · ad-deer'
3 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences
wide or (generally) large; figuratively, powerful
Strong's KJV usage: excellent, famous, gallant, glorious, goodly, lordly, mighty(-ier one), noble, principal, worthy.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 25:34Strong's last: Jeremiah 25:36
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sar · sar
2 times translated as this KJV form420 total Strong's occurrences
a head person (of any rank or class)
Strong's KJV usage: captain (that had rule), chief (captain), general, governor, keeper, lord,(-task-)master, prince(-ipal), ruler, steward.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Kings 25:19Strong's last: Jeremiah 52:25
Open full H8269 profile →ἐξοχή
exochḗ · ex-okh-ay'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
prominence (figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--principal.
Strong's first: Acts 25:23Strong's last: Acts 25:23
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ʼâb · awb
1 times translated as this KJV form1,212 total Strong's occurrences
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
Strong's KJV usage: chief, (fore-) father(-less), × patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 24:6Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 24:6
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nᵉçîyk · nes-eek'
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
properly, something poured out, i.e. a libation; also a molten image; by implication, a prince (as anointed)
Strong's KJV usage: drink offering, duke, prince(-ipal).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Micah 5:5Strong's last: Micah 5:5
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sôwrâh · so-raw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a ring, i.e. (by analogy) a row (adverbially)
Strong's KJV usage: principal.
Strong's first: Isaiah 28:25Strong's last: Isaiah 28:25
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H8269
And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king's presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city:
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principal
PRIN'CIPAL, adjective [Latin principalis, from princeps.]
1. Chief; highest in rank, character or respectability; as the principal officers of a government; the principal men of a city, town, or state. Acts 25:23. 1 Chronicles 24:6.
2. Chief; most important or considerable; as the principal topics of debate; the principal arguments in a case; the principal points of law; the principal beams of a building; the principal productions of a country.
Wisdom is the principal thing. Proverbs 4:7.
3. In law, a principal challenge, is where the cause assigned carries with it prima facie evidence of partiality, favor or malice.
4. In music, fundamental.
PRIN'CIPAL, noun A chief or head; one who takes the lead; as the principal of a faction, an insurrection or mutiny.
1. The president, governor, or chief in authority. We apply the word to the chief instructor of an academy or seminary of learning.
2. In law, the actor or absolute perpetrator of a crime, or an abettor. A principal in the first degree, is the absolute perpetrator of the crime; a principal in the second degree, is one who is present, aiding and abetting the fact to be done; distinguished from an accessory. In treason, all persons concerned are principals.
3. In commerce, a capital sum lent on interest, due as a debt or used as a fund; so called in distinction from interest or profits.
Taxes must be continued, because we have no other means for paying off the principal
4. One primarily engaged; a chief party; in distinction from an auxiliary.
We were not principals, but auxiliaries in the war.
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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