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heg-e-mon´i-deÌ„z, hej-e-mō̇-nı̄´deÌ„z (ἩγεμονιÌδης, HeÌ„gemonıÌdeÌ„s): The Syrian officer placed in command of the district extending from Ptolemaïs to the Gerrenians (2 Macc 13:24). It is not easy to see how in the King James Version and even in Swete's revised text the word can be taken as a mere appellative along with strateÌ„goÌn, the two being rendered “principal officerâ€: one of the two could certainly be omitted (Swete, 3rd ed., 1905, capitalizes HegemonideÌ„s). In the Revised Version (British and American) the word is taken as the name of some person otherwise unknown.