Isaiah 3:3
The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counseller, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
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Orator
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Acts 24:1
And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.
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ῥήτωρ
rhḗtōr · hray'-tore
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a speaker, i.e. (by implication) a forensic advocate
Strong's KJV usage: :--orator.
Strong's first: Acts 24:1Strong's last: Acts 24:1
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lachash · lakh'-ash
1 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
properly, a whisper, i.e. by implication, (in a good sense) a private prayer, (in a bad one) an incantation; concretely, an amulet
Strong's KJV usage: charmed, earring, enchantment, orator, prayer.
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Strong's first: Isaiah 3:3Strong's last: Isaiah 3:3
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And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.
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orator
OR'ATOR, noun [Latin]
1. A public speaker. In ancient Rome, orators were advocates for clients in the forum and before the senate and people. They were employed in causes of importance instead of the common patron.
2. In modern usage, a person who pronounces a discourse publicly on some special occasion, as on the celebration of some memorable event.
3. An eloquent public speaker; a speaker, by way of eminence. We say, a man writes and reasons well, but is no orator Lord Chatham was an orator
4. In France, a speaker in debate in a legislative body.
5. In chancery, a petitioner.
6. An officer in the universities in England.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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