spekoulatōros

Strong’sG4688

a body-guardsman, an executioner

stem spekoulatōr-once in the New Testament1 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.

*† σπεκουλάτωρ, -ορος (Rec. -ωρος), ὁ (Lat. speculator),

1. prop., a spy or scout.

2. An executioner: Mk 6:27 (v. Swete, in l.).†

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

Strong’s G4688 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidspek-oo-lat'-ore

a speculator, i.e. military scout (spy or (by extension) life-guardsman)

Fromof Latin origin;

King Jamesexecutioner.

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

σπεκουλάτωρ, ορος, ὁ,
= Latin speculator, properly scout: but in the Roman Imperial army,
1 one of the principales or head-quarters' staff of a legionary commander or provincial governor (whose duties included the carrying out of executions), NT+4th c.AD+
2 one of the Imperial body-guard (speculatores Augusti),= δορυφόρος, 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.

executioner1×

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	spekoulatōros	spekoulatōrois
object accusative	spekoulatōron1×σπεκουλάτορα	spekoulatōroin
direct address vocative	spekoulatōror	spekoulatōroir
of, belonging to genitive	spekoulatōrou	spekoulatōroiu
to, for dative	spekoulatōro	spekoulatōroi

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

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

spekoulatōro 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

spekoulatōron“executioner”objectaccusative singular1×

Mark 6:27kai euthuos apostelarantos tos basilevos spekoulatōron epitassata ferara tan kefalan autou. kai …… be brought in. He sent an executioner, who went and beheaded him in …