Exodus 18:21
choose <02372> [Moreover.]
capable <02428 0582> [able men.]
God-fearing <03373> [such as.]
<0582> [men.]
hate <08130> [hating.]
rulers ... thousands rulers .... rulers ..... rulers <0505 08269> [rulers of thousands.]
Whatever matter the {decarch,} or ruler over ten, could not decide, went to the {pentecontarch,} or ruler of fifty, and thence by degrees to the {hecatontarch,} or ruler over a hundred, to the {chiliarch,} or ruler over a thousand, to Moses, and at length to God himself. Each magistrate had the care or inspection of only ten men; the {decarch} superintended ten private characters; the {hecatontarch} ten {decarchs;} and the {chiliarch,} ten {hecatontarchs.}
Exodus 18:25-26
normal <06256> [at all.]
difficult cases <07186 01697> [the hard causes.]
