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A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd ed. is unavailable, but you can change that!

Described as an "invaluable reference work" (Classical Philology) and "a tool indispensable for the study of early Christian literature" (Religious Studies Review) in its previous edition, this new updated American edition of Walter Bauer's Wörterbuch zu den Schriften des Neuen Testaments builds on its predecessor's staggering deposit of extraordinary erudition relating to Greek literature from...

administrative position, be leader, command, rule, order, of the administration of imperial legates (governors; s. ἡγεμών 2; the verb in this mng. POslo 99, 3 [160/61 A.D.]; Jos., Ant. 15, 345; Just., A I, 29, 2) ἡγεμονεύοντος τῆς Συρίας Κυρηνίου while Quirinius was governor of Syria Lk 2:2. On the governorship of Quirinius s. FBleckmann, Klio 17, 1920, 104–12; HDessau, ibid. 252–58; RBrown, The Birth of the Messiah ’77, 547–56. S. also on ἀπογραφή and Κυρήνιος.—Of Pontius Pilate ἡγεμονεύοντος