noun · masculine
hekatontarchos
Strong’sG1543
a centurion
stem hekatontarch-3 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἑκατοντάρχης (-άρχος, Mt 8:5, 8 27:54, Lk 7:2, Ac 22:25 28:16; cf. M, Pr., 48); -ου
(< ἑκατόν, ἄρχω,), [in LXX for מֵאָה שַׂר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1543 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidhek-at-on-tar'-khace
the captain of one hundred men
Fromfrom G1540 and G757;
King Jamescenturion.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
={ἑκατοντάρχης}, NT+5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | hekatontarchos3×ἑκατόνταρχος | hekatontarchois |
| object accusative | hekatontarchon | hekatontarchoin |
| direct address vocative | hekatontarchor | hekatontarchoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | hekatontarchou | hekatontarchoiu |
| to, for dative | hekatontarcho | hekatontarchoi |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
hekatontarcho is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
hekatontarchos“centurion”subjectnominative singular3×
Matthew 8:5… de autou eis Kafarnaoum proserchata auto hekatontarchos parakalarōntos autonWhen Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came and pleaded with Him,
Matthew 8:8kai apokrinirantos tos hekatontarchos fēate; Kurior, ouk amō hikanos hina …The centurion answered, “Lord, I am not worthy …
Matthew 27:54Tos de hekatontarchos kai tois meta autou tērarōntois ton …When the centurion and those with him who were …