'Rulers' in the Bible

And now, brethren, I have known that through ignorance ye did it, as also your rulers;

And it came to pass upon the morrow, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, to Jerusalem,

Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: 'Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christ;

and when there was a purpose both of the nations and of the Jews with their rulers to use them despitefully, and to stone them,

And her masters having seen that the hope of their employment was gone, having caught Paul and Silas, drew them to the market-place, unto the rulers,

and not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the city rulers, calling aloud -- 'These, having put the world in commotion, are also here present,

And they troubled the multitude and the city rulers, hearing these things,