From the base of stratia and ago or hegeomai; a general, i.e. (by implication or analogy) a (military) governor (praetor), the chief (praefect) of the (Levitical) temple-wardens -- captain, magistrate.
στρατηγός, στρατηγοῦ, ὁ (στρατός and ἄγω), from Herodotus down, the Sept. chiefly for סֶגֶן (only plural סְגָנִים);
1.the commander of an army.
2. in the N. T. a civic commander, a governor (the name of the duumviri or highest magistrates in the municipia and colonies; they had the power of administering justice in the less important cases; οἱτῆςπόλεωςστρατηγοί, Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 4, 49; of civil magistrates as early as Herodotus 5, 38; (see references in Meyer on Acts 16:20; Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 2f; cf. Farrar, St. Paul, i., excurs. xvi.)): plural (R. V. magistrates (after A. V.), with marginal reading Gr. praetors), Acts 16:20, 22, 35f (38).
3.στρατηγόςτοῦἱεροῦ, 'captain of the temple' (A. V.), i. e. the commander of the Levites who kept guard in and around the temple (Josephus, Antiquities 20, 6, 2; (B. D., under the word , 3; Edersheim, The Temple etc., chapter vii., 2 edition, p. 119f)): Acts 4:1; Acts 5:24; plural Luke 22:52; simply (A. V. captain), Acts 5:26; Luke 22:4.
Luke 22:4 - N-DMP GRK:ἀρχιερεῦσιν καὶ στρατηγοῖς τὸ πῶς NAS: with the chief priests and officers how KJV: and captains, how INT: chief priests and captains the how
Luke 22:52 - N-AMP GRK:ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ στρατηγοὺς τοῦ ἱεροῦ NAS: to the chief priests and officers of the temple KJV: and captains of the temple, INT: chief priests and captains of the temple
Acts 4:1 - N-NMS GRK:καὶ ὁ στρατηγὸς τοῦ ἱεροῦ NAS: the priests and the captain of the temple KJV: and the captain of the temple, INT: and the captain of the temple
Acts 5:24 - N-NMS GRK:ὅ τε στρατηγὸς τοῦ ἱεροῦ NAS: when the captain of the temple KJV: and the captain of the temple INT: both [the] captain of the temple
Acts 5:26 - N-NMS GRK:ἀπελθὼν ὁ στρατηγὸς σὺν τοῖς NAS: Then the captain went along KJV: went the captain with INT: having gone the captain with the
Acts 16:20 - N-DMP GRK:αὐτοὺς τοῖς στρατηγοῖς εἶπαν Οὗτοι NAS: and when they had brought them to the chief magistrates, they said, KJV: them to the magistrates, saying, INT: them to the magistrates said These
Acts 16:22 - N-NMP GRK:καὶ οἱ στρατηγοὶ περιρήξαντες αὐτῶν NAS: against them, and the chief magistrates tore KJV: and the magistrates rent off INT: and the magistrates having torn off of them
Acts 16:35 - N-NMP GRK:ἀπέστειλαν οἱ στρατηγοὶ τοὺς ῥαβδούχους NAS: came, the chief magistrates sent KJV: day, the magistrates sent INT: sent the magistrates the officers
Acts 16:36 - N-NMP GRK:Ἀπέσταλκαν οἱ στρατηγοὶ ἵνα ἀπολυθῆτε NAS: to Paul, [saying], The chief magistrates have sent KJV: Paul, The magistrates have sent to INT: Have sent the captains that you might be let go
Acts 16:38 - N-DMP GRK:δὲ τοῖς στρατηγοῖς οἱ ῥαβδοῦχοι NAS: words to the chief magistrates. They were afraid KJV: words unto the magistrates: and INT: moreover to the captains the officers