satraps in English
From the end of the 370s Persia also faced a series of satrap revolts; these revolts particularly involved the western provinces of the empire, and rebel satraps made various overtures to Greek cities.
Use "satraps" in a sentence
1. A thousand rich dukes and satraps want to be kings.
2. 22 The scheming high officials and satraps were gone.
3. • What devious plot did the high officials and satraps devise?
4. (b) What was the true motive of the high officials and satraps?
5. 5 The other high officials and the satraps must have been seething with anger.
6. 6 It seemed good to Da·riʹus to appoint 120 satraps over the whole kingdom.
7. Darius organized the empire by dividing it into provinces and placing satraps to govern it.
8. Misled by his love of power and fraud, he betrayed his fellow satraps to the king.
9. He then arranged for an inauguration ceremony to which he invited his satraps, prefects, governors, counselors, and other high officials.
10. He gathered his satraps, prefects, governors, counselors, treasurers, judges, police magistrates, and all the administrators of the jurisdictional districts.
11. 6 So these high officials and satraps went in as a group to the king, and they said to him: “O King Da·riʹus, may you live on forever.
12. On paper , the Centre is the boss of all cadre officers and is free to summon them to its direct command from all outposts , no matter how hostile or protective their regional satraps are .
13. 2 Then King Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar sent word to assemble the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the administrators of the provinces* to come to the inauguration of the image that King Neb·u·chad·nezʹzar had set up.
14. In addition to the king’s own privy council, or advisory board, composed of “seven princes of Persia and Media” (Es 1:14; Ezr 7:14), there were satraps appointed over major regions or countries, such as Media, Elam, Parthia, Babylonia, Assyria, Arabia, Armenia, Cappadocia, Lydia, Ionia, and, as the empire expanded, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Libya.
15. 27 And the satraps, prefects, governors, and the high officials of the king who were assembled there+ saw that the fire had had no effect on* the bodies of these men;+ not a hair of their heads had been singed, their cloaks looked no different, and there was not even the smell of fire on them.