δεξιολάβος
dexiolábos · G1187 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Thing
- Spear, lanceWarfare68 verses
Meanings
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foot soldier, lightly armed soldier, spearman
Exact meaning unsure; a soldier other than heavily armed infantry or horsemen
ExamplesActs 23:23 And he called to him two of the centurions and said, “Get two hundred soldiers ready by the third hour of the night to proceed to Caesarea, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- διακόσιοιtwo hundred 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἑτοιμάζωto prepare, to make ready 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- σπεκουλάτωρ spekoulátōr · G4688 · courier, messenger, executioner
- Latin loanword for a special guard or executioner in royal/military service, similar military role to δεξιολάβος
- στρατιώτης stratiṓtēs · G4757 · soldier
- General term for soldier that encompasses the more specific military role of δεξιολάβος as light-armed soldier
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Spearman55.22
- Used of a light-armed auxiliary soldier, as of the two hundred spearmen ordered to be readied to escort Paul in Acts 23:23.
Word family 49 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon δεξιολαβου, ὁ (δεξιός and λαμβάνω), a word unknown to the earlier writings, found in…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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