Satrap

1. Satrap, a governor of a Persian province

• satraps the 5
• and satraps the 4

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Daniel 9

1 book in all.

• Satrap (achashdarpan)

• Daniel 3:3In contextThen the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
• Daniel 3:27In contextAnd the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.
• Daniel 6:1In contextIt pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom;
• Daniel 6:2In contextAnd over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage.
• Daniel 6:3In contextThen this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
• Daniel 6:4In contextThen the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

How the English word “satrap” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.