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International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Potentate:

po'-ten-tat (dunastes, "mighty one," from dunamai, "to be able"): A person who possesses great power and authority. Only in 1Ti 6:15, "the blessed and only Potentate" (= God). The same Greek word is used of Zeus in Sophocles (Ant. 608), and of God in Apocrypha (e.g. Sirach 46:5; 2 Macc 15:3,13). It is used of men in Lu 1:52 (the King James Version "the mighty," the Revised Version (British and American) "princes") and Ac 8:27 ("of great authority").

King James Dictionary

Potentate: One Who Possesses Power.

I give thee charge in the sight of God..., who is the blessed and only POTENTATE, the King of kings, and Lord of lords. (1 Timothy 6:13,15)

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
 

Potentate:

For POTENTATE, used of God, 1Ti 6:15, see AUTHORITY, No. 4

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