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