Word Summary
rhabdouchos: a rod holder, (a Roman) lictor (one holding the rod of office)
Original Word: ῥαβδοῦχοςTransliteration: rhabdouchos
Phonetic Spelling: (hrab-doo'-khos)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: a rod holder, (a Roman) lictor (one holding the rod of office)
Meaning: a rod holder, (a Roman) lictor (one holding the rod of office)
Strong's Concordance
officer, sergeant
From rhabdos and echo; a rod- (the Latin fasces) holder, i.e. A Roman lictor (constable or executioner) -- serjeant.
see GREEK rhabdos
see GREEK echo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4465: ῤαβδοῦχοςῤαβδοῦχος,
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):
Acts 16:35, 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.)