LSJ
ὁ (the fem. in Ar. Ec. 491, 500 is merely comic), Arc. and Dor. στραταγός IG 5(2).6.9 (Tegea, iv BC), SIG 597 B (Thermum, iii BC), etc. ; Aeol. στρόταγος IG 12(2).6.7 (Mytil.), 11 (2).1064b27 (Delos) : — leader or commander of an army, general, Archil. 58.1, A. Th. 816, Arist. Ath. 22.3, etc. ; ἀνὴρ σ. A. Ag. 1627, Pl. Ion 540d; opp. ναύαρχος (admiral), S. Aj. 1232 (v. infr. II. 1). generally, commander, governor, πόλει κήρυγμα θεῖναι τὸν σ. Id. Ant. 8, cf. Arist. Mu. 398a29. c. gen., στρατηγοὶ τοῦ πεζοῦ Hdt. 7.83; τῶν παραθαλασσίων Id. 5.25, etc. ; Ἀχαιῶν S. Aj. l.c. ; στρατεύματος X. An. 1.7.12. metaph, παραλαβὼν… οἶνον σ. Antiph. 18; στρατηγοὶ κυνηγεσίων masters of hounds, Arist. Mu. 398a24; so strategum te facio huic convivio, Plaut. Stich. 702. at Athens, the title of 10 officers elected by yearly vote to command the army and navy, and conduct the war-department at home, commanders in chief and ministers of war, Hdt. 6.109, Th. 1.61, 4.2, Arist. Ath. 26.1, 44.4, 61.1, D. 4.25; οἱ σ. οἱ εἰς Σικελίαν And. 1.11, cf. IG1². 302.46, al. ; σ. εἵλοντο δέκα X. HG 1.5.16, cf. Eup. 117.4, Pl.Com. 185, etc. ; τῷ σ. τῷ ἐπὶ τὰς συμμορίας ᾑρημένῳ IG2². 1629.209; when distd. from ναύαρχος and ἵππαρχος, the στρατηγός is commander of the infantry, Decr. ap. D. 18.184, Arist. Ath. 4.2; χειροτονηθεὶς σ. ἐπὶ τὸ ναυτικόν, ἐπὶ τὰ ὅπλα, IG2². 682.5, 31; ἐπὶ τὴν παρασκευήν ib. 22; ἐπὶ τὴν χώραν ib. 24. also of chief magistrates of the cities of Asia Minor, Hdt. 5.38; of many other Greek states, IG 5(2) l.c. (Tegea, iv BC), 12(9).191 A 44 (Eretria, iv BC), OGI 329.42 (Aegina, ii BC), Timae. 114, Plb. 2.43.1, etc. in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt, military and civil governor of a nome, PEnteux. 1.12, al. (iii BC), PCair. Zen. 351.4 (iii BC), BGU 1730.11 (i BC), OGI 184.3 (Philae, i BC), Wilcken Chr. 41 ii 6 (iii AD), 43.1 (iv AD); also in other parts of the Ptolemaic empire, e.g. at Calynda in Caria, PCair. Zen. 341 (a).20 (iii BC); in Cyprus, OGI 84 (iii BC); ὁ σ. τῆς Ἰνδικῆς καὶ Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης ib. 186 (Philae, i BC); in the Attalid empire, ib. 267.13 (Pergam., iii BC), al. ; σ. τῆς πόλεως at Alexandria, BGU 729.1 (ii AD); at Ptolemais, OGI 743 = Raccolta Lumbroso 299 (i BC), Sammelb. 7027 (ii AD). σ. ὕπατος consul, IG 5(1).1165 (Gythium, ii BC), 9 (2).338 (Cyretiae, ii BC), 4²(1).306 D (Epid., ii BC), Plb. 1.52.5; also σ. alone, Id. 1.7.12, al., SIG 685.20 (Crete, ii BC), and ὕπατος alone, v. ὕπατος· σ. ἀνθύπατος proconsul, ib. 826 I 1 (Delph., ii BC), 745.2 (Rhodes, i BC); ἑξαπέλεκυς σ.
praetor, Plb. 3.106.6; used of the praetor urbanus, Id. 33.1.5; called σ. κατὰ πόλιν IG 14.951 (i BC), etc. ; σ. alone, = praetor, D.H. 2.6, Arr. Epict. 2.1.26; also of the duumviri or chief magistrates of Roman colonies, as of Philippi, Act. Ap. 16.20; later of the Comes Orientis, Lib. Or. 56.21.
an officer who had the custody of the Temple at Jerusalem, ὁ σ. τοῦ ἱεροῦ Ev. Luc. 22.52, Act. Ap. 4.1, J. BJ 6.5.3. νυκτερινὸς σ.
superintendent of police at Alexandria, Str. 17.1.12. = φαλαγγάρχης, Arr. Tact. 10.7, Ael. Tact. 9.8.
Liddell-Scott-Jones, Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1940)
Pape
ὁ, Anführer eines Kriegsheers, Heerführer, Aesch. Ag. 567 ; ἀνδρὶ στρατηγῷ τόνδ' ἐβούλευσας μόρον, 1610 ; Soph. oft, κοὔτε στρατηγούς, οὔτε ναυάρχους μολεῖν ἡμᾶς Ἀχαιῶν διωμόσω, Aj. 1211 ; Eur.; in Prosa von Her. an häufig, z.B. στρατηγὸς τοῦ στρατοῦ, 7.83, auch ἡ στρατηγός, Ar. Eccl. 491, 500 ; übh. Anführer, καὶ ἡγεμών, Plat. Symp. 193b. – In manchen griechischen Staaten die höchste obrigkeitliche Person ; in Athen die Anführer des Fußvolks, die zugleich eine richterliche Behörde bilden ; bei Dem. 18.38 im Psephisma werden unterschieden ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν ὅπλων στρ. καὶ ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς διοικήσεως, vgl. §.115.
Bei den Römern praetor, u. στρατηγὸς ὕπατος, consul, Pol. u. Plut.
Pape, Griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (3. Aufl., 1914)
TBESG
στρατηγός, -οῦ, ὁ
(< στραός, ἄγω), [in LXX chiefly for סָגָן (always in pl.), שַׂר ;]
__1. a military commander, a general (Hdt., al.).
__2. A civic commander, a governor, magistrate (Hdt., Xen., al.): Act.16:20, 22 16:35-36, 38.
__3. The commander of the Levitical guard of the Temple, ὁ σ. τ. ἱεροῦ (EV, captain of the Temple): Act.4:1 5:24, 26; pl., Luk.22:4, 52.†
SYN.: ἄρχων (cf. EGT on Act.16:20; Ramsay, St. Paul, 217). (AS)
Translators Brief lexicon of Extended Strongs for Greek based on Abbot-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) (=AS), with corrections and adapted by Tyndale Scholars