Greek noun (masculine) · G4688
σπεκουλάτωρ
spekoulatorspek-oo-lat'-ore
prop., a spy or scout.; An executioner
1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: spekoulátōr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4688is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4688
a speculator, i.e. military scout (spy or (by extension) life-guardsman)
The King James renders it: executioner.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
spekoulator is rendered "prop., a spy or scout.; An executioner". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "prop., a spy or scout.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 6:27So without delay, the king commanded that John’s head be brought in. He sent an executioner, who went and beheaded him in the prison.
The first use
So without delay, the king commanded that John’s head be brought in. He sent an executioner, who went and beheaded him in the prison.
Mark 6:27σπεκουλάτορα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: prop., a spy or scout., and An executioner.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| prop., a spy or scout. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereMark 6:27So without delay, the king commanded that John’s head be brought in. He sent an executioner… |
| An executionerMrk.6:27 (see Swete, in l).† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereMark 6:27So without delay, the king commanded that John’s head be brought in. He sent an executioner… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 1, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- σπεκουλάτορα1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular1N-ASM
Mark
one use
So without delay, the king commanded that John’s head be brought in. He sent an executioner, who went and beheaded him in the prison.
- σπεκουλάτοραspekoulatoranoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: an executioner
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.