ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΡΧΑΙ, εκατονταρχαι
EKATONTARCHAI, ekatontarchai
Sounds Like: heh-kah-ton-TAR-khai
Translations: centurions, a centurion
From the root: ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΡΧΗΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to military commanders in the Roman army who were in charge of a 'century' (a unit of about 100 soldiers). It is a compound word derived from 'hekaton' (one hundred) and 'archos' (ruler or commander). It is used to describe these officers in various contexts, often in relation to their authority or actions.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative
Strong’s number: G1543 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 37:3
Josephus' The Jewish War
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΡΧΗΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΡΧΑΙΣ — to centurions, for centurions, with centurions, by centurions
- ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΡΧΑΣ — centurions
- ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΡΧΗ — centurion, a centurion
- ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΡΧΗΝ — centurion, a centurion
- ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΡΧΗΣ — centurion, a centurion
- ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΡΧΟΝ — centurion, a centurion
- ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΡΧΟΥΣ — centurions
- ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΡΧΩ — centurion, a centurion, of centurions, to centurions
- ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΡΧΩΝ — of centurions
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