'Principal' in the Bible

And he was teaching daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people sought to destroy him:

And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul; and they besought him,

So on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and they were entered into the place of hearing with the chief captains and principal men of the city, at the command of Festus Paul was brought in.