He said to him, "Behold now, there is a man of God in this city, and the man is held in honor; all that he says surely comes true. Now let us go there, perhaps he can tell us about our journey on which we have set out."
Original word: σικάριος
Transliteration: sikarios
Definition (short): Assassins
Definition (full): Assassins -- an assassin
Word Origin: of Latin origin, sica (a dagger)
Definition: an assassin
NASB Translation: Assassins (1).
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Of Latin origin; a dagger-man or assassin; a freebooter (Jewish fanatic outlawed by the Romans) -- murderer. Compare
phoneus .
see GREEK phoneus
KJV:
Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
NASB:
"Then you are not the Egyptian who some time ago stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?"