Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
3 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “chief” →
He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him .