Lexical Summary Sebastos: reverend, august, Augustus, a Roman emperor Original Word: ΣεβαστόςTransliteration: Sebastos Phonetic Spelling: (seb-as-tos') Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: reverend, august, Augustus, a Roman emperor Meaning: reverend -- august, Augustus, a Roman emperor Strong's Concordance AugustusFrom sebazomai; venerable (august), i.e. (as noun) a title of the Roman Emperor, or (as adjective) imperial -- Augustus(-'). see GREEK sebazomai Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4575: σεβαστόςσεβαστός, σεβαστη, Σεβαστόν (σεβάζομαι); 1. reverend, venerable. 2. ὁ σεβαστός, Latinaugustus, the title of the Roman emperors: Acts 25:21, 25 (Strabo, Lucian, Herodian, Dio Cassius, others); adjective σεβαστός, σεβαστη, Σεβαστόν, Augustan, i. e. taking its name from the emperor; a title of honor which used to be given to certain legions, or cohorts, or battalions, for valor (ala augusta ob virtutem appellata. Corpus inscriptions Latin vii. n. 340, 341, 344): σπείρης Σεβαστῆς, the Augustan (Imperial) cohort, Acts 27:1 (λεγεών σεβαστη, Ptolemy, 2, 3, 30; 2, 9, 18; 4, 3, 30). The subject is fully treated by Schürer in the Zeitsehr. für wissensch. Theol. for 1875, p. 413ff |
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