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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Rulers

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.

78exact KJV occurrences 57Old Testament 21New Testament 24books containing the word 15mapped Strong's IDs 74occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Genesis 47:6

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.

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Ephesians 6:12

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.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where rulers 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.

HebrewH5461
סָגָן

çâgân · saw-gawn'

16 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

a præfect of a province

Strong's KJV usage: prince, ruler.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Ezra 9:2Strong's last: Ezekiel 23:23

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HebrewH7218
רֹאשׁ

rôʼsh · roshe

2 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 1:13Strong's last: Isaiah 29:10

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GreekG2888
κοσμοκράτωρ

kosmokrátōr · kos-mok-fat'-ore

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

a world-ruler, an epithet of Satan

Strong's KJV usage: :--ruler.

Strong's first: Ephesians 6:12Strong's last: Ephesians 6:12

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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 35:8Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 35:8

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HebrewH6485
פָּקַד

pâqad · paw-kad'

1 times translated as this KJV form304 total Strong's occurrences

v n-m

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

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HebrewH7336
רָזַן

râzan · raw-zan'

1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences

v

probably to be heavy, i.e. (figuratively) honorable

Strong's KJV usage: prince, ruler.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Psalms 2:2Strong's last: Psalms 2:2

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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

Jeremiah 51:57
H5461

And I will make drunk her princes, and her wise men, her captains, and her rulers, and her mighty men: and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts.

Ezekiel 23:6
H5461

Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.

Ezekiel 23:12
H5461

She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

Ezekiel 23:23
H5461

The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.

Daniel 3:2
H7984

Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellers, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.

Daniel 3:3
H7984

Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellers, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

Hosea 4:18
H4043

Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.

Mark 5:22
no direct Strong's tag

And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet,

Mark 13:9
G2232

But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.

Luke 21:12
G2232

But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

Luke 23:13
G758

And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

Luke 23:35
G758

And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.

Luke 24:20
G758

And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.

John 7:26
G758

But, lo, he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?

John 7:48
G758

Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?

John 12:42
G758

Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue:

Acts 3:17
G758

And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.

Acts 4:5
G758

And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes,

Acts 4:8
G758

Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

Acts 4:26
G758

The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

Acts 13:15
no direct Strong's tag

And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.

Acts 13:27
G758

For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

Acts 14:5
G758

And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,

Acts 16:19
G758

And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,

Acts 17:6
no direct Strong's tag

And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

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

ruler

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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