Words the Bible translates as prince
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 12 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- archōnἄρχωνa ruler: someone who holds authority over others, whether a human official or a spiritual power.
- sarשַׂרa person placed in command over others: an official, commander, chief, or ruler acting under a higher authority
- nasiנָשִׂיאa leader: one lifted up over others to rule, represent, or speak for them
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- rising mist: vapor or clouds that lift up from the earth
- hēgemōnἡγεμώνa governing leader set over a region; in the New Testament chiefly the Roman provincial governor
- nagidנָגִידa leader: the one placed out front and at the head of others, with the authority to direct them
- archēgosἀρχηγόςthe founding leader: the one who begins something and then leads others into it as its head, having gone the way first himself
- nadivנָדִיבa noble or prince: a person of high rank, of whom the open-handed generosity the title implies is expected
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- willing: moved from within to give or act freely, rather than under compulsion or obligation
- nazirנָזִירa distinguished one: a person singled out and set above his fellows, a prince or elect one
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- a Nazirite: a person consecrated to God by a vow of abstinence, marked by uncut hair and by staying away from wine and from the dead
- an unpruned vine: a grapevine left untended and uncut during the fallow year
- aḥashdarpanאֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנִיןa satrap: the ruler the Persian king set over one of the empire's great regions, ranked above its governors and answerable to the king himself
- nesikhנָסִיךְsomething poured out: wine poured as an offering to a god, or metal poured into a mold to make an image.
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- a chief installed in office: one of a group of rulers over a people, named alongside a greater king or as the leadership of a nation.
- minnzarמִנְזָרprincenot studied yet
- razonרָזוֹןprincenot studied yet
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