Dict: smith - CAPTAIN

CAPTAIN - C>@ - As a purely military title, "captain" answers to sar in the Hebrew army and tribune in the Roman. The captain of the guard in kjv@Acts:28:16) was probably the prefectus pratorio . Katsin , occasionally rendered captain, applies Sometimes to a military, kjv@Joshua:10:24; kjv@Judges:11:6 kjv@Judges:11:11 kjv@Isaiah:22:3; kjv@Daniel:11:18) sometimes to a civil command, e.g. kjv@Isaiah:1:10 kjv@Isaiah:3:6) The captain of the temple, mentioned kjv@Luke:22:4; kjv@Acts:4:1 kjv@Acts:5:24) superintended the guard of priests and Levites who kept watch by night in the temple.