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Вот что нашел по теме данного вопроса. Согласно Webster's 1828 Dictionary :
CHIEF, n.
6. This word is often used, in the singular number, to express a plurality.
Examples:
I took the chief of your tribes, wise men and known, and made them heads over you. Deut. 1:15.
These were the chief of the officers, that were over Solomons work. 1 Kings 9.
In these phrases, chief may have been primarily an adjective, that is, chief men, chief persons.
Надеюсь, что данная информация поможет и внесет определенную ясность.
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