Dictionary entry

ἀνθύπατος

G. Abbott-Smith's A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

* ἀνθ-ύπατος, -ου, ὁ

(ἀντί, ὕπατος, altern. for ὑπέρτατος),

supreme, a consul, one acting in place of a consul, a proconsul, the administrator of a senatorial province (cf. ἡγεμών, and v. MM, VGT, 44): Ac 13:7, 8, 1218:1219:38.†