Strong's Number 4232
Transliteration:
praitorion
{prahee-to'-ree-on}
Word Origin:
of Latin origin
Part of Speech:
noun neuter
Usage in the KJV:
judgment hall 4, hall of judgment 1, common hall 1, praetorium 1, palace 1
Total: 8
Definition:
- "head-quarters" in a Roman camp, the tent of the commander-in-chief
- the palace in which the governor or procurator of a province resided, to which use the Romans were accustomed to appropriate the palaces already existing, and formerly dwelt in by kings or princes; at Jerusalem it was a magnificent palace which Herod the Great had built for himself, and which the Roman procurators seemed to have occupied whenever they came from Caesarea to Jerusalem to transact public business
- the camp of the Praetorian soldiers established by Tiberius