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The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
Read in context →For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Read in context →11 occurrences in 5 verses.
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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.
sar · sar
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.
Strong's first: Genesis 47:6Strong's last: Esther 9:3
Open full H8269 profile →çâgân · saw-gawn'
a præfect of a province
Strong's KJV usage: prince, ruler.
Strong's first: Ezra 9:2Strong's last: Ezekiel 23:23
Open full H5461 profile →árchōn · ar'-khone
a first (in rank or power)
Strong's KJV usage: :--chief (ruler), magistrate, prince, ruler.
Strong's first: Luke 23:13Strong's last: Romans 13:3
Open full G758 profile →mâshal · maw-shal'
to rule
Strong's KJV usage: (have, make to have) dominion, governor, × indeed, reign, (bear, cause to, have) rule(-ing, -r), have power.
Strong's first: Judges 15:11Strong's last: Jeremiah 33:26
Open full H4910 profile →nâsîyʼ · naw-see'
properly, an exalted one, i.e. a king or sheik; also a rising mist
Strong's KJV usage: captain, chief, cloud, governor, prince, ruler, vapour.
Strong's first: Exodus 16:22Strong's last: Exodus 35:27
Open full H5387 profile →hēgemṓn · hayg-em-ohn'
a leader, i.e. chief person (or figuratively, place) of a province
Strong's KJV usage: :--governor, prince, ruler.
Strong's first: Mark 13:9Strong's last: Luke 21:12
Open full G2232 profile →qâtsîyn · kaw-tseen'
a magistrate (as deciding) or other leader
Strong's KJV usage: captain, guide, prince, ruler. Compare 6278.
Strong's first: Isaiah 1:10Strong's last: Isaiah 22:3
Open full H7101 profile →rôʼsh · roshe
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 1:13Strong's last: Isaiah 29:10
Open full H7218 profile →shilṭôwn · shil-tone'
Strong's KJV usage: ruler.
Strong's first: Daniel 3:2Strong's last: Daniel 3:3
Open full H7984 profile →kosmokrátōr · kos-mok-fat'-ore
a world-ruler, an epithet of Satan
Strong's KJV usage: :--ruler.
Strong's first: Ephesians 6:12Strong's last: Ephesians 6:12
Open full G2888 profile →kôhên · ko-hane'
literally one officiating, a priest; also (by courtesy) an acting priest (although a layman)
Strong's KJV usage: chief ruler, × own, priest, prince, principal officer.
Strong's first: 2 Samuel 8:18Strong's last: 2 Samuel 8:18
Open full H3548 profile →mâgên · maw-gane'
a shield (i.e. the small one or buckler); figuratively, a protector; also the scaly hide of the crocodile
Strong's KJV usage: × armed, buckler, defence, ruler, scale, shield.
Strong's first: Hosea 4:18Strong's last: Hosea 4:18
Open full H4043 profile →nâgîyd · naw-gheed'
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 35:8Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 35:8
Open full H5057 profile →pâqad · paw-kad'
to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy, to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc.
Strong's KJV usage: appoint, × at all, avenge, bestow, (appoint to have the, give a) charge, commit, count, deliver to keep, be empty, enjoin, go see, hurt, do judgment, lack, lay up, look, make, × by any means, miss, number, officer, (make) overseer, have (the) oversight, punish, reckon, (call to) remember(-brance), set (over), sum, × surely, visit, want.
Strong's first: 1 Chronicles 26:32Strong's last: 1 Chronicles 26:32
Open full H6485 profile →râzan · raw-zan'
probably to be heavy, i.e. (figuratively) honorable
Strong's KJV usage: prince, ruler.
Strong's first: Psalms 2:2Strong's last: Psalms 2:2
Open full H7336 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
11 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest that did the work.
And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.
And it came to pass from that time forth, that the half of my servants wrought in the work, and the other half of them held both the spears, the shields, and the bows, and the habergeons; and the rulers were behind all the house of Judah.
And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.
Then I consulted with myself, and I rebuked the nobles, and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I set a great assembly against them.
Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us.
And my God put into mine heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,
And the rulers of the people dwelt at Jerusalem: the rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts to dwell in other cities.
So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:
Then contended I with the rulers, and said, Why is the house of God forsaken? And I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
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RU'LER, noun
1. One that governs, whether emperor, king, pope or governor; any one that exercises supreme power over others.
2. One that makes or executes laws in a limited or free government. Thus legislators and magistrates are called rulers.
3. A rule; an instrument of wood or metal with straight edges or sides, by which lines are drawn on paper, parchment or other substance. When a ruler has the lines of chords, tangents, sines, etc. it is called a plane scale.
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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