STRONGS G4465:
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):
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.)
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