noun · masculine
rabdouchos
Strong’sG4465
a lictor, Roman officer
stem rabdouch-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.
* ῥαβδοῦχος, -ου, ό
(< ῥάβδος, ἔχω),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4465 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(properispomenon), ὁ, one who carries a rod or staff of office:
1 judge, umpire at a contest, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 magistrate's attendant, staff-bearer, beadle, NT+5th c.BC+: especially at Rome, of the lictors who carried the fasces, Refs 2nd c.BC+, female attendants on Oenanthe, mother of Agathocles, Refs
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.
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 | rabdouchos | rabdouchois1×ῥαβδοῦχοι |
| object accusative | rabdouchon | rabdouchoin1×ῥαβδούχους |
| direct address vocative | rabdouchor | rabdouchoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | rabdouchou | rabdouchoiu |
| to, for dative | rabdoucho | rabdouchoi |
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
rabdoucho 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
rabdouchois“police”subjectnominative plural1×
Acts 16:38“police”apangelala de toi stratēgoi tois rabdouchois teim rēmeim houteim; fobila de akouarantois …So the officers relayed this message to the magistrates, who were alarmed to hear that Paul and Silas were …
rabdouchoin“police”objectaccusative plural1×
Acts 16:35“police”… de generantau apostelala tois stratēgois toin rabdouchoin legarōntois; Apoluasar toin anthrōpoin ekeinoin.… daylight came, the magistrates sent their officers with the order: “Release those men.”