Execute, Executioner
Execute, Executioner
ekse-kut, ek-se-kushun-er (, asah, to do, , dn,to judge, decide; , poieo, to do; , spekoulator, Latin speculator, an attendant): Execute in the sense of executing judgment, vengeance, etc., is often found in the Old Testament (Exo 12:12; Deu 10:18; Psa 149:7; Jer 22:3; Eze 25:11; Mic 5:15; compare Jer 21:12, Execute justice in the morning) and a few times in the New Testament (Joh 5:27; Rom 13:4 the King James Version; Jud 1:15). In the sense of punishing capitally, by legal process, it is not found. Executioner is found only in Mar 6:27 the King James Version, where Herod, the king, is said to have sent an executioner (spekoulator) to behead John the Baptist, but the Revised Version (British and American) and the American Standard Revised Version have instead, according to the stricter meaning of the text, The king sent forth a soldier of his guard. The office of executioner, however, was a recognized office in all the great nations of antiquity.