chiefs
13 occurrences across the corpus
1 Enoch
These are their chiefs of tens.
And these are the chiefs of their angels and their names, and their chief ones over hundreds and over fifties and over tens.
And many chiefs of the stars shall transgress the order (prescribed). And these shall alter their orbits and tasks, And not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.
Jubilees
and holiness, and may He make them great unto all the ages. And they shall be judges and princes, and chiefs of all the seed of the sons of Jacob; They shall speak the word of the Lord in righteousness, And they shall judge all His judgments in righteousness. And they shall declare My ways to Jacob And My paths to Israel. The blessing of the Lord shall be given in their mouths To bless all the seed of the beloved.
OT Pseudepigrapha
And after these things shall Abraham and Isaac and Jacob arise unto life; and I and my brethren shall be chiefs of the tribes of Israel:
And the likeness of future torment, and the multitude of innumerable angels, and the flaming hosts, and the splendor of the lightnings, and the voice of the thunders, and the orders of the chiefs of the angels, and the treasuries of light, and the changes of the times, and the investigations of the law.
And I went forth and destroyed their multitude, the number of whose chiefs only was a hundred and eighty-five thousand, and each one of them had an equal number (at his command).
Will much embellish helmed chiefs of war,
And chiefs all flee into another land,
But tyrants, and there be of thousands chiefs
By reason of the wickedness of chiefs.
But when two chiefs, men swift in war, shall rule
For victory, shall cast down hostile chiefs