Lexical Summary praktōr: one who does or accomplishes Original Word: πράκτωρTransliteration: praktōr Phonetic Spelling: (prak'-tor) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: one who does or accomplishes Meaning: one who does or accomplishes Strong's Concordance officer. From a derivative of prasso; a practiser, i.e. (specially), an official collector -- officer. see GREEK prasso Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4233: πράκτωρπράκτωρ, πρακτορος, ὁ (πράσσω); 1. one who does anything, a doer (Sophocles). 2. "one who does the work of inflicting punishment or taking vengeance; especially the avenger of a murder (Aeschylus, Sophocles); the exactor of a pecuniary fine" ((Antiphon), Demosthenes, others); an officer of justice of the tower order whose business it is to inflict punishment: Luke 12:58. |
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