a leader of any kind, a guide, ruler, prefect, president, chief, general, commander, sovereign

1. a "legatus Caesaris", an officer administering a province in the name and with the authority of the Roman emperor

   1. the governor of a province

2. a procurator, an officer who was attached to a proconsul or a proprietor and had charge of the imperial revenues

   1. in causes relating to these revenues he administered justice. In the smaller provinces also, which were so to speak appendages of the greater, he discharged the functions of governor of the province; and such was the relation of the procurator of Judaea to the governor of Syria.

3. first, leading, chief

   1. of a principal town as the capital of the region

Claudius = "lame"

1. C. Caesar the name of the fourth Roman emperor, who came to power in 41 A.D. and was poisoned by his wife Agrippina, in 54 A.D.

2. C. Lysias a tribune of the Roman cohort who rescued Paul from the hands of the mob at Jerusalem

mightiest, strongest, noblest, most illustrious, best, most excellent

1. used in addressing men of prominent rank or office

Lysias = "releaser"

1. a tribune or chiliarch of the Roman cohort

this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than "the" counted

Felix = "happy"

1. a Roman procurator of Judea appointed by the emperor Claudius in A.D. 53. He ruled the province in a mean, cruel, and profligate manner. His period of office was full of troubles and seditions. Paul was brought before Felix at Caesarea. He was remanded in prison, and kept there two years in hopes of extorting money from him. Acts 24:26,27. At the end of that time Porcius Festus was appointed to supersede Felix, who, on his return to Rome, was accused by the Jews in Caesarea, and would have suffered the penalty due to his atrocities had not his brother Pallas prevailed with the emperor Nero to spare him. The wife of Felix was Drusilla, daughter of Herod Agrippa I., who was his third wife and whom he persuaded to leave her husband and marry him.

to rejoice, be glad

to rejoice exceedingly

to be well, thrive

in salutations, hail!

at the beginning of letters: to give one greeting, salute