Word Summary
sikarios: an assassin
Original Word: σικάριοςTransliteration: sikarios
Phonetic Spelling: (sik-ar'-ee-os)
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Short Definition: an assassin
Meaning: Assassins -- an assassin
Strong's Concordance
murderer.
Of Latin origin; a dagger-man or assassin; a freebooter (Jewish fanatic outlawed by the Romans) -- murderer. Compare phoneus.
see GREEK phoneus
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 4607: σικάριοςσικάριος,
σικαριου,
ὁ (a Latin word),
an assassin, i. e. one who carries a dagger or short sword (Latin
sica (cf.
Josephus, as below)) under his clothing, that he may kill secretly and treacherously anyone he wishes to (a cut-throat):
Acts 21:38. (
Josephus,
b. j. 2, 17, 6
σικαριους ἐκάλουν τούς λῃστάς ἔχοντας ὑπό τοῖς κόλποις τά ξιφη (cf. 2, 13, 3); also Antiquities 20, 8, 10
σικαριοι λῃσταί εἰσί χρώμενοι ξιφιδιοις παραπλησιοις μέν τό μέγεθος τοῖς τῶν Περσῶν ἀκινακαις,
ἐπικαμπεσι δέ ]
καί ὁμοιοις ταῖς ὑπό Ῥωμαίων σικαις καλουμεναις,
ἀφ' ὧν καί τήν προσηγοριαν οἱ ληστευοντες ἔλαβον πολλούς ἀναιροῦντες.) (Synonym: see
φονεύς.)