Greek noun (neuter) · G4232
πραιτώριον
praitorionprahee-to'-ree-on
headquarters in a Roman camp; The palace or official residence of the Governor of a province; the Prætorian Guard
8 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: praitṓrion
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4232is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4232
the prætorium or governor's courtroom (sometimes including the whole edifice and camp)
The King James renders it: (common, judgment) hall (of judgment), palace, prætorium.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
praitorion is rendered "headquarters in a Roman camp; The palace or official residence of the Governor of a province; the Prætorian Guard". It stands 8 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in John, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "headquarters in a Roman camp".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 27:27Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company around Him.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company around Him.
Matthew 27:27πραιτώριον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's eight uses are in John.
What the word means
The word carries three meanings: headquarters in a Roman camp, and The palace or official residence of the Governor of a province, and the Prætorian Guard.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| headquarters in a Roman camp | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereMatthew 27:27Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company… |
| The palace or official residence of the Governor of a provinceMat.27:27, Mrk.15:16 (see Swete, in l), Jhn.18:28, 33 19:9; τ. π. τ. Ἡρώδου, Act.23:35. | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 27:27Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company… |
| the Prætorian GuardPhp.1:13 (see Lft. | Tagged as
| WherePhilippians 1:13As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πραιτώριον6
- πραιτωρίῳ2
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular5N-ASN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular2N-DSN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1N-NSN
Matthew
one use
Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company around Him.
- πραιτώριονpraitorionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Praetorium
Mark
one use
Then the soldiers led Jesus away into the palace (that is, the Praetorium) and called the whole company together.
- πραιτώριονpraitorionnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: Praetorium
John
four uses
Then they led Jesus away from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. By now it was early morning, and the Jews did not enter the Praetorium, to avoid being defiled and unable to eat the Passover.
- πραιτώριονpraitorionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Praetorium
- πραιτώριονpraitorionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Praetorium
Pilate went back into the Praetorium, summoned Jesus, and asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”
- πραιτώριονpraitorionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Praetorium
and he went back into the Praetorium. “Where are You from?” he asked. But Jesus gave no answer.
- πραιτώριονpraitorionnoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: Praetorium
Acts
one use
he said, “I will hear your case when your accusers arrive.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod’s Praetorium.
- πραιτωρίῳpraitorionoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: Praetorium
Philippians
one use
As a result, it has become clear throughout the whole palace guard and to everyone else that I am in chains for Christ.
- πραιτωρίῳpraitorionoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: palace guard
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.