praktoros

Strong’sG4233

an officer employed to execute judicial sentences

stem praktor-2 times in the New Testament2 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

πράκτωρ, -ορος, ὁ

(< πράσσω), [in LXX: Is 3:12 (נֹגֵשׂ)*;]

1. (poët.) one who does or accomplishes.

2. In Athens, one who exacts payment, a collector; hence, generally (freq. in π., v. Deiss., BS, 154), a court officer: Lk 12:58.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4233 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidprak'-tor

a practiser, i.e. (specially), an official collector

Fromfrom a derivative of G4238;

King Jamesofficer.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

πράκ-τωρ, ορος, ὁ,
={πρακτήρ}, one who does or executes, accomplisher, Ζεὺς ὅτου π. φανῇ Refs 5th c.BC+; with feminine substantive, Κύπρις.. τῶνδ᾽ ἐφάνη π. Refs 5th c.BC+
II official who executes a judgment for debt, especially public debt, bailiff, NT+5th c.BC+; τῶν ξενικῶν Refs 2nd c.BC+
II.2 collector of taxes, π. βαλανήου “Ostr.” in Wilcken Grundzüge Refs 1st c.AD+; π. ἀργυρικῶν Refs 2nd c.AD+; π. σιτικῶν Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.3 in Poets, one who exacts punishment, avenger, Refs 5th c.BC+: as adjective, with a feminine substantive, avenging, σὺν δορὶ καὶ χερὶ πράκτορι Refs 4th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

officer2×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	praktoros1×πράκτωρ	praktorois
object accusative	praktoron	praktoroin
direct address vocative	praktoror	praktoroir
of, belonging to genitive	praktorou	praktoroiu
to, for dative	praktoro1×πράκτορι	praktoroi

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

praktorstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

praktoro is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

praktoros“officer”subjectnominative singular1×

Luke 12:58… sin paradōati to praktoro, kai tos praktoros sin balati eis fulakan.… over to the officer, and the officer may throw you into prison.

praktoro“officer”to, fordative singular1×

Luke 12:58… kai tos kritos sin paradōati to praktoro, kai tos praktoros sin balati eis …… may hand you over to the officer, and the officer may throw you …