noun · masculine

rabdouchos

Greekῥαβδοῦχος (rabdouchos)

Strong’sG4465

a lictor, Roman officer

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

Translated as

police2×

What it means

* ῥαβδοῦχος, -ου, ό

(< ῥάβδος, ἔχω),

one who carries a rod or staff of office;

(a) an umpire or judge (Plat.);

(b) in late writers, a Roman lictor: Ac 16:35, 38.†

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

Saidhrab-doo'-khos

a rod- (the Latin fasces) holder, i.e. a Roman lictor (constable or executioner)

Fromfrom G4464 and G2192;

King Jamesserjeant.

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

Every form

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

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

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

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

rabdouchois“police”subjectnominative plural1×

Acts 16:38“police”apangellala de toi stratēgoi tois rabdouchois teim rēmeim houteim; fobila de akouaratois hoti Rōmaiois alō,So the officers relayed this message to the magistrates, who were alarmed to hear that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.

rabdouchoin“police”objectaccusative plural1×

Acts 16:35“police”Hēmerau de gineratau apostelala tois stratēgois toin rabdouchoin legarōtois; Apoluasar toin anthrōpoin ekeinoin.When daylight came, the magistrates sent their officers with the order: “Release those men.”