142 occurrences in 8 translations

'Commanders' in the Bible

And his officials contributed a freewill offering to the people, to the priests, and to the Levites. Hilkiah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, commanders of the house of God, gave to the priests two thousand six hundred Passover [lambs] and three hundred bulls.

Verse ConceptsTwo ThousandThree Hundred And Above

Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethanel his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jehozabad, commanders of the Levites, contributed to the Levites five thousand Passover [lambs] and five hundred bulls.

Verse ConceptsHeadsFour To Five HundredFive ThousandFour And Five Hundred

Then I weighed out to them silver and gold and the vessels, the offering of the house of our God that the king, his counselors, his commanders, and all of Israel who was present offered.

Verse ConceptsWeighing

I came to the governors of [the province] Beyond the River, and I gave them the letters of the king. Then the king sent troop commanders and horses with me.

Verse ConceptsBeyond The River

From that day, half of my servants were working on craftsmanship, half were holding spears, small shields, bows, and breastplates. The commanders were behind the whole house of Judah.

Verse ConceptsBreastplatesArmourShieldsArmor ProtectionFractions, One HalfHalf Of Groups

"Now because of all of this we make a binding written agreement and are writing on the sealed documents [the names of] our commanders, our Levites, and our priests."

Verse ConceptsAgreementLiteracyWritingCovenant RelationshipsLater Covenants With God

Now the commanders of the people lived in Jerusalem, but the remainder of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city of Jerusalem, the [other] nine's place [was in] the [other] cities.

Verse ConceptsCityChanceA Tenth Of PeopleHoly City

Then I brought the commanders of Judah up on to the wall. I appointed two great choirs; [one went in] a procession to the right on the wall to the Dung Gate.

Verse Conceptsdung and manureThanksgiving, OfferedChoirsRight SidesNamed GatesSingers

After them went Hoshaiah, half of the commanders of Judah,

Verse ConceptsHalf Of Groups

At the sound of the trumpet, it says, 'Aha!' And from a distance it catches the scent of battle, the thunderous shouting of commanders, and the battle cries.

Verse ConceptsNosesShouting

For he says,“Aren’t all my commanders kings?

Verse ConceptsNature Of Kings

Set out the table in order! Spread out the rugs! Eat! drink! Rise up, commanders; smear [the] shield!

Verse ConceptsAnointing With OilOfficersShieldsTablesAnointing ThingsEating And Drinking

Their stronghold will vanish by reason of terror, and their commanders will be filled with alarm because of the battle standard," declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsFurnacesBanners, Literal UseBanner, Figurative UseJerusalem, Significance OfPeople As Rockszion

When all the commanders of the armies in the field—they and their men—heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam over the land and that he had put him in charge of the men, women, and children from the poorest of the land who had not been deported to Babylon,

Verse ConceptsGovernorsSmall Remnants

they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah. The commanders included Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah son of the Maacathite—they and their men.

Meanwhile, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies in the field came to Gedaliah at Mizpah

When Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him heard of all the evil that Ishmael son of Nethaniah had done,

Verse ConceptsFighting One Another

When all the people with Ishmael saw Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the army with him, they rejoiced,

Verse ConceptsJoy, And Human Experience

Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him then took from Mizpah all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam—men, soldiers, women, children, and court officials whom he brought back from Gibeon.

Then all the commanders of the armies, along with Johanan son of Kareah, Jezaniah son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least to the greatest, approached

Verse ConceptsGreat And Small

and he summoned Johanan son of Kareah, all the commanders of the armies who were with him, and all the people from the least to the greatest.

Verse ConceptsGreat And Small

So Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies did not obey the voice of the Lord to stay in the land of Judah.

Verse ConceptsStaying Put

Instead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies took the whole remnant of Judah, those who had returned from all the nations where they had been banished to live in the land of Judah for a while—

Verse ConceptsRemnantThose who returned from exile

With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock,With you I shatter the farmer and his yoke of oxen,And with you I shatter governors and commanders.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsFarmersStock Keeping

Prepare and dedicate the nations for war against her—The kings of Media,With their governors and commanders,And every land of their dominion.

“I will make her princes and her wise men drunk,Her governors and her commanders and her mighty warriors;They will sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up,”Says the King—the Lord of hosts is His name.

Verse ConceptsSleep, And DeathWisdom, Human NatureWisdom, Source Of HumanGod Making DrunkHis Name Is The Lord

At Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes and also slaughtered the Judean commanders.

Verse ConceptsRankKilling Sons And Daughters

The Lord has devoured; he has not shown mercy to all the dwellings of Jacob; he has broken down in his wrath the fortifications of the daughter of Judah; he has leveled to the ground, he has dishonored the kingdom and its commanders.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toFortificationsFortressesAnger Of God, ConsequencesJacob, The PatriarchDestruction Of StrongholdsSwallowingPeople Being PollutedNot Sparing

And [the] Spirit lifted me up, and it brought me to the eastern gate, the one facing east, of the temple of Yahweh. And look, there were twenty-five men in the doorway of the gate, and I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azzur in the midst of them, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, the commanders of the people.

Verse ConceptsCompassesGateways Of The TempleFacing EastGod Lifting PeopleTwenty Some

who were clothed in blue including governors and commanders. All of them were desirable young men horsemen mounted on horses.

Verse ConceptsGovernorsBeauty, In MenColors, PurplePurple Clothes

She lusted after the Assyrians governors, commanders, warriors clothed in gorgeous attire, cavalry mounted on their horses all of them desirable young men.

the Babylonians, all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all of the Assyrians with them. They're all desirable young men, governors, commanders, chariot officers, and famous men, all of them mounted on horses.

“The king of the South will grow powerful, but one of his commanders will grow more powerful and will rule a kingdom greater than his.

Verse Conceptsdominion

And their king will go into exile, he and his commanders together," says Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsExiled Foreigners

He will give us peace. Should the Assyrians try to invade our land and attempt to set foot in our fortresses, we will send against them seven shepherd-rulers, make that eight commanders.

Verse ConceptsSeven PeopleEight PeopleTrampling Places

Your officials [are] like locusts; your commanders [are] like a swarm of locusts. They encamp on the walls on a cold day; when the sun rises, they fly away-- no one knows where they have gone.

Verse ConceptsGrasshoppersHot WeatherCold WeatherUnknown ThingsEvil Fleeing

Now an opportune time came on his birthday, when Herod gave a banquet for his nobles, military commanders, and the leading men of Galilee.

Verse ConceptsAmusementsCommanderBanquets, Events CelebratedBirthdaysBirthdays CelebratedDinnerRight Time For People

He went and conferred with the High Priests and Commanders as to how he should deliver Him up to them.

Verse ConceptsChief priestsGuardsNegotiationOfficersPlottingJudas Betraying ChristDiscussionsThe Chief Priests Condemning Christ

Then Jesus said to the High Priests and Commanders of the Temple and Elders, who had come to arrest Him, "Have you come out as if to fight with a robber, with swords and cudgels?

Verse ConceptsChief priestsGuardsClubsThe Lord As A Thief

So the next day, Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the auditorium with the commanders and prominent men of the city. When Festus gave the command, Paul was brought in.

Verse ConceptsJudgment SeatOfficersRankDisplayingHalls

Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the military commanders, the rich, the powerful, and every slave and free person hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

Verse ConceptsCavesDensPeople In CavesHiding From GodCaves As Places Of RefugeThe End Of The WorldThe EarthSigns Of The End TimesEnd Timesfreehidingrevelation

so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of commanders, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of their riders, and the flesh of everyone, both free and slave, small and great.”

Verse ConceptsGreat And SmallSlave Or Freerevelation

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Commandant (17 instances)
Commanders (142 instances)

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Root Form
Definition
Usage
κελεύω 
Keleuo 
Usage: 26

παραγγέλλω 
Paraggello 
Usage: 30

διαστέλλομαι 
Diastellomai 
Usage: 8

διάταγμα 
Diatagma 
Usage: 1

διατάσσω 
Diatasso 
Usage: 14

ἔνταλμα 
Entalma 
Usage: 1

ἐντέλλομαι 
Entellomai 
Usage: 10

ἐντολή 
Entole 
Usage: 47

ἐπιταγή 
Epitage 
Usage: 7

ἐπιτάσσω 
Epitasso 
Usage: 8

ἔπω 
Epo 
say , speak , tell , command , bid , , vr say
Usage: 824

παραγγελία 
Paraggelia 
Usage: 5

προστάσσω 
Prostasso 
Usage: 4

ῥέω 
Rheo 
speak , say, speak of , command , make
Usage: 17

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