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What does the term "principalities and powers" mean?

What does the term "principalities and powers" mean?

In some translations, I see the term “principalities and powers.” To what does this refer?

This will not be exhaustive, but for example, consider the KJV’s translation of Romans 8:38-39:

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor li…

Sabbath, Sabbaths or week? Matthew 28:1

Sabbath, Sabbaths or week? Matthew 28:1

Reading in Matthew 28:1 (ESV):

Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.
ὀψὲ δὲ σαββάτων τῇ ἐπιφωσκούσῃ εἰς μίαν σαββάτων ἦλθεν Μαριὰμ ἡ Μαγδαληνὴ καὶ ἡ ἄλ…