Magistrate
תִּפְתָּיֵאStrong’s H8614tiphtay (tiph-tay)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tiphtay is the Aramaic word usually translated “magistrates the”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.”
Meaning
- Magistrate
- (BDB) name of a magistrate
How it's translated
- magistrates the 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
Aramaic dictionary
תִּפְתָּיֵא tiphtay · magistrate
1) magistrate 2) (BDB) name of a magistrate
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “magistrate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MAG'ISTRATE, noun
[Latin magistratus, from magister, master; magis, major, and ster, Teutonic steora, a director; steoran, to steer; the principal director.]
A public civil officer, invested with the executive government of some branch of it. In this sense, a king is the highest or first magistrate as is the President of the United States. But the word is more particularly applied to subordinate officers, as governors, intendants, prefects, mayors, justices of the peace, and the like.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.