Topic
Serjeants
2 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Acts 16:35ISBE
And when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.
- Acts 16:38ISBE
And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 2 references
sar'-jents, -jants (rhabdouchoi): In Ac 16:35,38 the word (literally, "holders of rods," corresponding to Roman "lictors," thus the Revised Version margin) is used of the officers in attendance on the Philippian magistrates, whose duty it was to execute orders in scourging, etc., in this case in setting prisoners free. Paul and Silas, however, as Romans, refused thus to be "privily" dismissed.
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.