σατράπης
satrap, governor
Where this word appears
Every passage where σατράπης appears in the Greek Septuagint — 24 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Judges 5:3 σατράπης Hear, you⌃ kings, and listen, rulers: I will sing, it is I who will sing to the Lord, it is I, I will sing a psalm to the Lord the god of Israel.
- 1 Samuel 5:8 σατράπης And they send and gather the lords of the Philistines to them, and say, What shall we do to the ark of the God of Israel? and the Gittites say, Let the ark of God come over to us; and the ark of the God of Israel came to Geth.
- 1 Samuel 5:11 σατράπης And they send and gather the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it lodge in its place; and let it not kill us and our people.
- 1 Samuel 6:4 σατράπης And they say, What is the offering for the plague which we shall return to it? and they said,
- 1 Samuel 6:12 σατράπης And the cows went straight on the way to the way of Baethsamys, they went along one track; and laboured, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left, and the lords of the Philistines went after it as far as the coasts of Baethsamys.
- 1 Samuel 6:16 σατράπης And the five lords of the Philistines saw, and returned to Ascalon in that day.
- 1 Samuel 6:18 σατράπης And the golden mice according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines, belonging to the five lords, from the fenced city to the village of the Pherezite, and to the great stone, on which they placed the ark of the covenant of the Lord, that was in the field of Osee the Baethsamysite.
- 1 Samuel 7:7 σατράπης And the Philistines heard that all the children of Israel were gathered together to Massephath: and the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel: and the children of Israel heard, and they feared before the Philistines.
- 1 Samuel 29:2 σατράπης And the lords of the Philistines went on by hundreds and thousands, and David and his men went on in the rear with Anchus.
- 1 Samuel 29:3 σατράπης And the lords of the Philistines said, Who are these that pass by? And Anchus said to the captains of the Philistines, Is not this David the servant of Saul king of Israel? He has been with us some time, even this second year, and I have not found any fault in him from the day that he attached himself to me even until this day.
- 1 Samuel 29:6 σατράπης And Anchus called David, and said to him, As the Lord lives, you are right and approved in my eyes, and so is your going out and your coming in with me in the army, and I have not found any evil to charge against you from the day that you came to me until this day: but you are not approved in the eyes of the lords.
- 1 Samuel 29:7 σατράπης Now then return and go in peace, thus you shall not do evil in the sight of the lords of the Philistines.
- 1 Samuel 29:9 σατράπης And Anchus answered David, I know that you are good in my eyes, but the lords of the Philistines say, He shall not come with us to the war.
- 1 Kings 10:15 σατράπης Besides the tributes of them that were subjects, both merchants and all the kings of the country beyond the river, and of the princes of the land.
- 1 Kings 21:24 σατράπης And do you this thing: Send away the kings, each one to his place, and set princes in their stead.
- 2 Chronicles 9:14 σατράπης besides what the men who were regularly appointed and the merchants brought, and all the kings of Arabia and princes of the land: all brought gold and silver to king Solomon.
- Esther 1:3 σατράπης in the third year of his reign, he made a feast to his friends, and the other nations, and to the nobles of the Persians and Medes, and the chief of the satraps.
- Esther 8:9 σατράπης So the scribes were called in the first month, which is Nisan, on the three and twentieth day of the same year; and orders were written to the Jews, whatever the king had commanded to the local governors and chiefs of the satraps, from India even to Ethiopia, one hundred and twenty-seven satraps, according to the several provinces, according to their dialects.
- Esther 9:3 σατράπης For the chiefs of the satraps, and the princes and the royal scribes, honored the Jews; for the fear of Mardochaeus lay upon them.
- Daniel 3:2 σατράπης And he sent forth to gather the governors, and the captains, and the heads of provinces, chiefs, and princes, and those who were in authority, and all the rulers of districts, to come to the dedication of the image.
- Daniel 6:2 σατράπης and over them three governors, of whom one was, Daniel; for the satraps to give account to them, that the king should not be troubled.
- Daniel 6:4 σατράπης Then the governors and satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel; but they found against him no occasion, nor trespass, nor error, because he was faithful.
- Daniel 6:15 σατράπης Then those men said to the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is that we must not change any decree of statue which the king shall make.
- Daniel 6:20 σατράπης And when he drew near to the den, he cried with a loud voice, Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lion's mouth?
About this word
About this word
σατράπης (satrápēs), “satrap, governor,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 24 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →