Potentate (δυνάστης, 'powerful one')
From:
Concise Bible Dictionary: P
By:
George A. Morrish
Narrator:
Chris Genthree
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Jehovah is the only Potentate (1 Tim. 6:15). The word occurs also in Luke 1:52; Jehovah “hath put down the ‘mighty’ from their thrones.” And in Acts 8:27, the eunuch was a man “of great authority”; they at times had more power than the kings.