G4465

ῥαβδοῦχος

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police

ῥαβδοῦχος, -ου, ό (ῥαβδος, ἔχω), one who carries a rod or staff of office; __(a) an umpire or judge (Plat.); __(b) in late writers, a Roman lictor: Act.16:38.† (AS)

The KJV translates G4465 in the following manner:

serjeants (4x)

Full Thayer's lexicon entry

ῥαβδοῦχος — rhabdoûchos

ῤαβδοῦχος, 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): Act 16:35; Act 16:38. (Polybius; Diodorus 5, 40; Dionysius Halicarnassus; Herodian, 7, 8, 10 (5 edition, Bekker); διά τί λικτωρεις τούς ῤαβδούχους ὀνομαζουσι; Plutarch, quaest. Rom c. 67.)

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