ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΡΧΟΥΣ, εκατονταρχους
EKATONTARCHOUS, ekatontarchous
Sounds Like: heh-kah-ton-AR-khoos
Translations: centurions
From the root: ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΡΧΗΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to military commanders in the Roman army, each in charge of a company of about one hundred soldiers. It is a compound word formed from 'ἑκατόν' (hekaton), meaning 'one hundred', and 'ἀρχός' (archos), meaning 'leader' or 'commander'. It is used to describe officers who held this specific rank.
Inflection: Accusative, Plural, Masculine
Strong’s number: G1543 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- 1 Maccabees — 3:55
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 18:21, 18:25
- Deuteronomy — 1:15
- 1 Samuel — 8:12, 22:7
- 2 Samuel — 18:1
- 2 Kings — 11:4, 11:19
- 2 Chronicles — 23:1, 25:5
- 1 Maccabees — 3:55
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.
- ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΡΧΑΙ — centurions, a centurion
- 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
- ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΡΧΩ — centurion, a centurion, of centurions, to centurions
- ΕΚΑΤΟΝΤΑΡΧΩΝ — of centurions
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