Strong's Greek · G1543

G1543 hekatontárchēs

ἑκατοντάρχης

centurion

When hekatontárchēs is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

the captain of one hundred men

Derivation

from G1540 (ἑκατόν) and G757 (ἄρχω);

Appears 20 times in Scripture

Matthew 8:8

The centurion answered, “Lord, I am not worthy to have You come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.

Acts 22:25

But as they stretched him out to strap him down, Paul said to the centurion standing there, “Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman citizen without a trial?”

Matthew 27:54

When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified and said, “Truly this was the Son of God.”

Luke 7:6

So Jesus went with them. But when He was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends with the message: “Lord, do not trouble Yourself, for I am not worthy to have You come under my roof.

Acts 10:1

At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment.

Matthew 8:5

When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came and pleaded with Him,

Luke 23:47

When the centurion saw what had happened, he gave glory to God, saying, “Surely this was a righteous man.”

Luke 7:2

There a highly valued servant of a centurion was sick and about to die.

Matthew 8:13

Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! As you have believed, so will it be done for you.” And his servant was healed at that very hour.

Acts 21:32

Immediately he took some soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When the people saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

When hekatontárchēs is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what hekatontárchēs means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Matthew 8:8 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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