Quick Definition
ῥαβδοῦχος, ου, ὁ n.m. a lictor, Roman officer
Strong's Definition
from 4464 and 2192; a rod- (the Latin fasces) holder, i.e. a Roman lictor (constable or executioner)
KJV Usage: serjeant
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ῥαβδοῦχος, -ov, 6, (ῥάβδος and ἔχω; cf. εὐνοῦχος), one who carries the rods i. e. the fasces, a lictor (a public officer who bore the fasces or staff and other insignia of office before the magistrates), [A. V. serjeants]: Acts xvi. 35, 38. (Polyb.; Diod. 5, 40; Dion. Hal.; Hdian. 7,8, 10 [5 ed. Bekk.]; διὰ τί λικτώρεις τοὺς ῥαβδούχους ὀνομάζουσι; Plut. quaest. Rom. c. 67.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ῥαβδοῦχος rhabdouchos 2x
the bearer of a wand of office; a lictor, sergeant, a public servant who bore a bundle or rods before the magistrates as insignia of their office, and carried into execution the sentences they pronounced, Acts 16:35, 38*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
* ῥαβδοῦχος, -ου, ό
(< ῥάβδος, ἔχω),
one who carries a rod or staff of office;
an umpire or judge (Plat.);
in late writers, a Roman lictor: Ac 16:35, 38.†
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ῥαβδοῦχος (rhabdouchos) — police. ῥάβδουχ-ος (properispomenon), ὁ, one who carries a rod or staff of office:
1. judge, umpire at a contest, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. magistrate's attendant, staff-bearer, beadle, [NT+5th c.BC+]: especially at Rome, of the lictors who carried the fasces, [Refs 2nd c.BC+], female attendants on Oenanthe, mother of Agathocles, [Refs]