Word: hgemwn

Pronounce: hayg-em-ohn'

Strongs Number: G2232

Orig: from 2233; a leader, i.e. chief person (or figuratively, place) of a province:--governor, prince, ruler. G2233

Use: Noun Masculine

Heb Strong: H410 H441 H6346 H7277 H8269

    1) a leader of any kind, a guide, ruler, prefect, president, chief, general, commander, sovereign
    1a) a "legatus Caesaris", an officer administering a province in the name and with the authority of the Roman emperor
    1a1) the governor of a province
    1b) a procurator, an officer who was attached to a proconsul or a proprietor and had charge of the imperial revenues
    1b1) 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.
    1c) first, leading, chief
    1c) of a principal town as the capital of the region