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Governor
People's Dictionary of the Bible
or Governor. Various Hebrew terms are thus translated: thus it is used to designate certain provincial officers of the Assyrian, Babylonian, Median and Persian empires. The original word is pechah, probably akin to the modern pacha. Several of these governors presided over districts on the western side of the Euphrates, Nehemiah 2:7; Nehemiah 2:9; and they were inferior to the satraps, or king's lieutenants. Ezra 8:36. In the New Testament the Roman procurator of Judea is called the "governor," e.g., Matthew 27:2; Matthew 27:11; Matthew 27:14; a kindred word being used to describe the authority of Tiberius, Luke 3:1, where our version has "reign." The "governor" of a marriage-feast was the bridegroom's friend, who took charge of the entertainment, John 2:8-9. The "governor" of Damascus would seem to have been the ethnarch who held the place as the king's lieutenant or vassal. 2 Corinthians 11:32. The "governors" of a minor were the trustees of his property, R. V. "stewards." Galatians 4:2. The "governor "of a ship was the steersman. See R. V., James 3:4.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Governor'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/g/governor.html. 1893.
