{"def":{"short":"a leader, i.e., chief person (or figuratively, place) of a province","long":["a leader of any kind, a guide, ruler, prefect, president, chief, general, commander, sovereign",["a \"legatus Caesaris\" (an officer administering a province in the name and with the authority of the Roman emperor)",["the governor of a province"],"a procurator, an officer who was attached to a proconsul or a proprietor and had charge of the imperial revenues",["in causes relating to these revenues he administered justice"],"of a principal town as the capital of the region"]]},"deriv":"from G2233","pronun":{"ipa":"he.ɣɛˈmon","ipa_mod":"e̞.ʝe̞ˈmown","sbl":"hēgemōn","dic":"hay-geh-MONE","dic_mod":"ay-gay-MONE"},"see":["G2233"],"comment":"In the smaller provinces also, which were so to speak appendages of the greater, he discharged the functions of governor of the province; and such was the relation of the procurator of Judaea to the governor of Syria."}