KJV dictionary & concordance
1. First, principal, highest, leading, greatest, most excellent, most important, or most responsible in rank, order, degree, value, or guilt. 2. A leader, head, principal ruler, officer, or principal member of a group.
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First occurrence: Genesis 21:22
Complete exact-word concordance
¶ And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them.
¶ And Iudas Iscariot, one of the twelue, went vnto the chiefe Priests, to betray him vnto them.
1611 marginal noteMat. 26.14.
¶ And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
¶ And immediately, while hee yet spake, commeth Iudas, one of the twelue, and with him a great multitude with swords, and staues, from the chiefe Priests, and the Scribes, & the Elders.
1611 marginal noteMat. 26.47.
¶ And they led Jesus away to the high priest: and with him were assembled all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes.
¶ And they led Iesus away to the high Priest, and with him were assembled all the chiefe Priests, and the Elders, and the Scribes.
1611 marginal noteMat. 26.57.
And the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death; and found none.
And the chiefe Priests, and all the counsell sought for witnesse against Iesus, to put him to death, & found none.
1611 marginal noteMat. 26.59.
AND straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.
¶ And straightway in the morning the chiefe Priests helde a consultation with the Elders and Scribes, and the whole Councell, and bound Iesus, and caried him away, and deliuered him to Pilate.
1611 marginal noteMatth. 27.1.
And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing.
And the chiefe Priests accused him of many things: but hee answered nothing.
For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.
(For hee knew that the chiefe Priests had deliuered him for enuie.)
But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.
But the chiefe Priests mooued the people, that hee should rather release Barabbas vnto them.
Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.
Likewise also the chiefe Priests mocking, said among themselues with the Scribes, He saued others, himselfe he cannot saue.
Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.
Saying, The Sonne of man must suffer many things, and be reiected of the Elders, and chiefe Priests, and Scribes, and be slaine, and be raised the third day.
1611 marginal noteMat. 17.22.
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