What Does “Satrap” Mean in the Bible?
Office or title
The governor of a province of the Persian empire.
A detail
- In the Bible: King Darius appointed 120 satraps. Daniel stood out above all of them.
Where it appears in the Bible
Daniel 6:2; Daniel 6:4; Daniel 3:2
What the Bible says
Daniel 6:2
It seemed good to Darius, and he appointed over the kingdom a hundred and twenty governors to be over his whole kingdom.
Daniel 6:4
And Daniel excelled all the princes, and governors: because a greater spirit of God was in him.
Daniel 3:2
Then Nabuchodonosor the king sent to call together the nobles, the magistrates, and the judges, the captains, the rulers, and governors, and all the chief men of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the statue which king Nabuchodonosor had set up.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “sátrapa”