STRONGS G1885:
ἐπαρχία [
-χεία T WH (see
ει, ι)],
-ας,
ἡ, (from
ἔπαρχος i. e. ὁ ἐπ’ ἀρχῇ ὤν the one in command, prefect, governor),
prefecture; i. e.
1. the office of
ἔπαρχος or prefect.
2. the region subject to a prefect; a province of the Roman empire, either a larger province, or an appendage to a larger province, as Palestine was to that of Syria [cf.
Schürer, Zeitgesch. p. 144ff.]:
Acts 23:34;
Acts 25:1 [see the preceding word]; (Polybius, Diodorus, Plutarch, Dio Cassius). Cf.
Krebs, Observationes etc.
p. 256ff; Fischer, De vitiis Lexx.
N. T. p. 432ff;
[BB. DD. (esp. Kitto) under the word Province].
Related entry:
ἐπάρχειος,
-ον,
belonging to an ἔπαρχος or
prefect;
ἡ ἐπάρχειος namely,
ἐξουσία, equivalent to
ἡ ἐπαρχίᾳ (see the following word),
a perfecture, province:
Acts 25:1 T WH marginal reading. So
ἡ ἐπαρχιος, Eusebius,
h. e. 2, 10, 3 (with the variant
ἐπάρχειον); 2, 26, 2; 3, 33, 3; de mart. Pal. 8, 1; 13, 11.
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