Prefect
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge, department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp, of a fleet, of the city guard, of provisions; the pretorian prefect, who was commander of the troops guarding the emperor's person.

2. (n.) A superintendent of a department who has control of its police establishment, together with extensive powers of municipal regulation.

3. (n.) In the Greek and Roman Catholic churches, a title of certain dignitaries below the rank of bishop.

Strong's Hebrew
5461. sagan -- a prefect, ruler
... 5460, 5461. sagan. 5462 . a prefect, ruler. Transliteration: sagan Phonetic
Spelling: (saw-gawn') Short Definition: officials. Word ...
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5460. segan -- a prefect
... 5459, 5460. segan. 5461 . a prefect. Transliteration: segan Phonetic
Spelling: (seg-an') Short Definition: prefects. Word Origin ...
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5333. netsib -- a pillar, prefect, garrison, post
... netsib or netsib. 5334 . a pillar, prefect, garrison, post. Transliteration: netsib
or netsib Phonetic Spelling: (nets-eeb') Short Definition: garrisons. ...
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8674. Tattenay -- Tattenay
... Tattenai. Word Origin (Aramaic) of foreign origin Definition a Pers. prefect
NASB Word Usage Tattenai (4). Tattenai, a Persian. Of ...
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6346. pechah -- a governor
... captain, deputy, governor. Of foreign origin; a prefect (of a city or small district) --
captain, deputy, governor. 6345, 6346. pechah. 6347 . ...
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Library

To the Prefect Eutrechius.
... Letters of the Blessed Theodoret, LXXX. To the Prefect Eutrechius. I have
been much astonished that no information has been sent ...
/.../the ecclesiastical history of theodoret/lxxx to the prefect eutrechius.htm

To Constantius the Prefect.
... Letters of the Blessed Theodoret, XLII. To Constantius the Prefect. ... [1683] For many
years Prefect of the East. [1684] Presumably the Jacobus of Relig. Hist. ...
/.../the ecclesiastical history of theodoret/xlii to constantius the prefect.htm

To the Prefect Eutrechius.
... Letters of the Blessed Theodoret, XCI. To the Prefect Eutrechius. I well know,
and need no words to tell me, how your excellency regards me. ...
/.../the ecclesiastical history of theodoret/xci to the prefect eutrechius.htm

The Memorial of Symmachus, Prefect of the City.
... Selections from the Letters of St. Ambrose. The Memorial of Symmachus,
Prefect of the City. Symmachus addresses his memorial in ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/the memorial of symmachus prefect.htm

Memorial of Symmachus, the Prefect of the City.
... Selections from the Letters of St. Ambrose. Memorial of Symmachus, the
Prefect of the City. Symmachus in the name of the heathen ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/memorial of symmachus the prefect.htm

How the Wife of a Prefect Slew Herself for Chastity's Sake.
... The Life of the blessed emperor constantine, by eusebius pamphilus. Book I. Chapter
XXXIV."How the Wife of a Prefect slew herself for Chastity's Sake. ...
/.../pamphilius/the life of constantine/chapter xxxiv how the wife of.htm

To Sophronius, Prefect of Constantinople.
... Division III. Miscellaneous Letters. Section 4. To Sophronius, Prefect of
Constantinople. (Sophronius, a native of the Cappadocian ...
/.../select letters of saint gregory nazianzen/section 4 to sophronius prefect.htm

Anthemius the Pr??torian Prefect Administers the Government
... Chapter I."Anthemius the Pr??torian Prefect administers the Government. ... [904] This
was done, according to Cedrenus, several years later by another prefect. ...
/.../chapter i anthemius the praetorian prefect.htm

Letter civ. To the Prefect Modestus.
... Letter CIV. To the prefect Modestus. Merely to write to so great a man, even though
there be no other reason, must be esteemed a great honour. ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/letter civ to the prefect.htm

Letter cxi. To Modestus, the Prefect.
... TOU AGIOU BAChILEIOU PERI TOU PNEUMATOCh BIBLION. Letter CXI. To Modestus,
the prefect. Under any ordinary circumstances I should ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/letter cxi to modestus the.htm

Thesaurus
Prefect (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A Roman officer who controlled or superintended a particular command, charge,
department, etc.; as, the prefect of the aqueducts; the prefect of a camp ...
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Praetorian (2 Occurrences)
... Over this court there presided the emperor or his delegate, the prefect of the
praetorian guard, and associated with him were twenty assessors selected from ...
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Deputy (7 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary In 1 Kings 22:47, means a prefect; one set over
others. The same Hebrew word is rendered "officer;" ie ...
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Procurator
... administrative functions. Military service as prefect or tribune was the
preliminary step in the official equestrian career. The ...
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Prefects (18 Occurrences)

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Roman (26 Occurrences)
... It has commonly been held that the expression stratopedarches was equivalent to
praetorian prefect (praefectus praetorius), and that the employment of the word ...
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Guard (185 Occurrences)
... Over this court there presided the emperor or his delegate, the prefect of the
praetorian guard, and associated with him were twenty assessors selected from ...
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Officer (70 Occurrences)
... eunuch," "minister of state" (Genesis 37:36); paqidh, "person in charge," "overseer"
(Genesis 41:34); necibh, "stationed," "garrison," "prefect" (1 Kings 4:19 ...
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Garrison (15 Occurrences)
... (2.) Hebrews netsib, a prefect, superintendent; hence a military post (1 Samuel
10:5; 13:3, 4; 2 Samuel 8:6). This word has also been explained to denote a ...
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Rezeph (2 Occurrences)
... 3. Its Assyrian Governors: From the Eponym Canons, Ninip-kibsi-ucur was, it appears,
prefect in 839 BC, Uras-eres from 804 to 775 BC, Sin-sallimanni in 747 ...
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Prefect (2 Occurrences)

Acts 28:16
And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered up the prisoners to the praetorian prefect, but Paul was allowed to remain by himself with the soldier who kept him.
(DBY)

Daniel 2:48
Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him many great gifts, and made him to rule over the whole province of Babylon, and to be chief governor over all the wise men of Babylon.
(See JPS NAS RSV)

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