Lexical Summary rhabdouchos: a rod holder, (a Roman) lictor (one holding the rod of office) Original Word: ῥαβδοῦχοςTransliteration: rhabdouchos Phonetic Spelling: (hrab-doo'-khos) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a rod holder, (a Roman) lictor (one holding the rod of office) Meaning: a rod holder, (a Roman) lictor (one holding the rod of office) Strong's Concordance officer, sergeantFrom rhabdos and echo; a rod- (the Latin fasces) holder, i.e. A Roman lictor (constable or executioner) -- serjeant. see GREEK rhabdos see GREEK echo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4465: ῤαβδοῦχοςῤαβδοῦχος, ῥαβδουχου, ὁ (ῤάβδος and ἔχω; cf. εὐνοῦχος), one who carries the rods i. e. the fasces, a lictor (a public officer who bore the fasces or staff and other insignia of office before the magistrates) (A. V. serjeants): Acts 16:35, 38. (Polybius; Diodorus 5, 40; Dionysius Halicarnassus; Herodian, 7, 8, 10 (5 edition, Bekker); διά τί λικτωρεις τούς ῤαβδούχους ὀνομαζουσι; Plutarch, quaest. Rom c. 67.) |