1) ruler of the synagogue. It was his duty to select the readers or teachers in the synagogue, to examine the discourses of the public speakers, and to see that all things were done with decency and in accordance with ancestral usage.
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Citing in TDNT: 6:844, 1107
G752
From G746 and G4864; director of the synagogue services: - (chief) ruler of the synagogue.
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These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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