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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 (Ac 28:16) was probably the prefectus pratorio.
2. Katsin, occasionally rendered captain, applies Sometimes to a military, (Jos 10:24; Jud 11:6,11; Isa 22:3; Da 11:18) sometimes to a civil command, e.g. (Isa 1:10; 3:6)
3. The captain of the temple, mentioned (Lu 22:4; Ac 4:1; 5:24) superintended the guard of priests and Levites who kept watch by night in the temple.