prōtostatos

Strong’sG4414

a leader, chief

stem prōtostat-once 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.

πρωτοστάτης, -ου, ὁ

(< πρῶτος, ἵστημι), [in LXX: Jb 15:24 AB*;]

prop., of soldiers, one who stands first, one in the front rank (Thuc., Xen.); hence, metaph., a leader: Ac 24:5.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4414 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpro-tos-tat'-ace

one standing first in the ranks, i.e. a captain (champion)

Fromfrom G4413 and G2476;

King Jamesringleader.

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

πρωτο-στάτης [ᾰ], ου, ὁ,
(ἵστημι) one who stands first, especially the first man on the right of a line, right-hand man, ὁ π. τοῦ δεξιοῦ κέρως Refs 5th c.BC+; but also οἱ π. the front-rank men, Refs 5th c.BC+; either sense possible in Refs 3rd c.BC+
2 ={λοχαγός}, Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 man in the uneven rows in a λόχος, opposed to ἐπιστάτης, Refs 1st c.BC+
II metaphorically, chief or leader of a party, NT+3rd c.AD+; π. τοῦ θητικοῦ καὶ οἰκετικοῦRefs 4th 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.

ringleader1×

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	prōtostatos	prōtostatois
object accusative	prōtostaton1×πρωτοστάτην	prōtostatoin
direct address vocative	prōtostator	prōtostatoir
of, belonging to genitive	prōtostatou	prōtostatoiu
to, for dative	prōtostato	prōtostatoi

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

prōtostatstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

prōtostato 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

prōtostaton“ringleader”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 24:5… toi Ioudaioi toi kata tan oikoumenan prōtostaton tē tau toiu Nazōraioiu hairesiau,… over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,