Lexical Summary dynastēs: a ruler, a potentate Original Word: δυνάστηςTransliteration: dynastēs Phonetic Spelling: (doo-nas'-tace) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a ruler, a potentate Meaning: a ruler, a potentate Strong's Concordance ruler, officer, potentateFrom dunamai; a ruler or officer -- of great authority, mighty, potentate. see GREEK dunamai Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1413: δυνάστηςδυνάστης, δυνάστου, ὁ (δύναμαι); from (Sophocles and) Herodotus on; powerful; 1. a prince, potentate: Luke 1:52; used of God (Sir. 46:5; 2 Macc. 15:3, 23, etc.; of Zeus, Sophocles Ant. 608), 1 Timothy 6:15. 2. a courtier, high officer, royal minister: Acts 8:27 (A. V. (a eunuch) of great authority; but see Meyer at the passage) (δυνάσται Φαραώ, Genesis 50:4). |
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