σπεκουλάτωρ G4688
A Roman soldier assigned to carry out executions, executioner
This Latin loanword originally meant 'scout' but in Imperial usage designated a special soldier from the headquarters staff responsible for executing prisoners. Mark's vivid account of John the Baptist's beheading employs this technical military term for the soldier Herod dispatched to the prison. The term appears in Greek texts as a transliteration of Latin speculator, reflecting Roman military administrative vocabulary. Translations consistently render this as 'executioner' (English, Spanish verdugo, German Henker), recognizing the specialized role rather than the etymological 'scout' meaning.
Sentidos
1. sense 1 — A member of the Roman military headquarters staff whose duties included carrying out capital sentences. In Mark 6:27, Herod sends such a soldier to behead John the Baptist in prison. The technical nature of this borrowed Latin term reflects the Roman administrative machinery of death that pervades the Gospel narratives, from John's execution to Jesus' crucifixion by Roman soldiers. 1×
AR["جَلّادًا"]·ben["জল্লাদ"]·DE["Henker"]·EN["executioner"]·FR["spéculateur"]·heb["שׁוֹמֵר"]·HI["आज्ञा-दी"]·ID["algojo"]·IT["spekoulatora"]·jav["juru-pejah,"]·KO["망나니를,"]·RU["палача"]·ES["verdugo"]·SW["mlinzi"]·TR["cellat"]·urd["جلاد"]
Sentidos Relacionados
H4421 1. war, battle, armed conflict (319×)H0341 1. enemy, adversary, foe (284×)H3898a 1. Nifal: to fight, wage war (167×)H2026 1. kill, slay (active) (146×)H2451 1. wisdom, discernment (146×)H5483b 1. horse (the animal) (138×)H0006 1. to perish, be destroyed (105×)H7843 1. Hifil: destroy, annihilate (83×)H2491a 1. slain, fatally pierced (74×)H6862c 1. adversary, enemy, foe (69×)H8045 1. destroy, exterminate (69×)G0615 1. kill, put to death (60×)H6571b 1. horseman, cavalryman (52×)H8077a 1. desolation, waste (abstract state) (52×)G4678 1. of wisdom (51×)G4717 1. crucify, fasten to a cross (46×)H2763a 1. utterly destroy (Hifil active) (44×)G0622 1. perish, be destroyed (intransitive) (41×)H0006 2. to destroy, annihilate (Piel) (38×)H8074 1. be desolate, lie waste (36×)
Referencia BDB / Léxico
σπεκουλάτωρ, ορος, ὁ, = Latin speculator, properly scout: but in the Roman Imperial army, __1 one of the principales or head-quarters' staff of a legionary commander or provincial governor (whose duties included the carrying out of executions), NT+4th c.AD+ __2 one of the Imperial body-guard (speculatores Augusti),= δορυφόρος, Refs