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In the Roman army during classical antiquity, a centurion (/ sɛnˈtjʊəriən /; Latin: centurio [kɛn̪ˈt̪ʊrioː], pl. centuriones; Greek: κεντυρίων, translit. kentyríōn, or Greek: ἑκατόνταρχος, translit. hekatóntarkhos), was a commander, nominally of a century (Latin: centuria), a military unit originally ...
Original Word: κεντυρίων, ῶνος, ὁ. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine. Transliteration: kenturión. Phonetic Spelling: (ken-too-ree'-ohn) Definition: a centurion (a Roman army officer) Usage: a centurion, an officer commanding about a hundred infantry in the Roman army. NAS Exhaustive Concordance.
A centurion (/sɛnˈtjʊəriən/; Latin: centurio; Greek: κεντυρίων, kentyríōn or ἑκατόνταρχος, hekatóntarkhos) was a professional officer of the Roman army after the Marian reforms of 107 BC.
Original Word: ἑκατοντάρχης, ου, ὁ. Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine. Transliteration: hekatontarchés or hekatontarchos. Phonetic Spelling: (hek-at-on-tar'-khace) Definition: a centurion, a captain of one hundred men. Usage: a centurion of the Roman army. NAS Exhaustive Concordance. Word Origin. from hekaton and archó.
Greek-English Concordance for κεντυρίων Mark 15:39 And when the centurion ( kentyriōn | κεντυρίων | nom sg masc ), who was standing in front of him, saw that in this way he had died, he said, “Truly, this man was the son of God!”
The centurion was the commander of a centuria, which was the smallest unit of a Roman legion. A legion was nominally composed of 6,000 soldiers, and each legion was divided up into 10 cohorts, with each cohort containing 6 centuria.
Translation for 'centurion' in the free English-Greek dictionary and many other Greek translations.
