Magistrate
עֶ֫צֶרStrong’s H6114etser (e-tser)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Etser is the Hebrew word usually translated “oppression”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.”
Meaning
- Restraint, oppression
How it's translated
- oppression 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
עֶ֫צֶר etser · magistrate
restraint, oppression
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “magistrate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MAG'ISTRATE, noun
[Latin magistratus, from magister, master; magis, major, and ster, Teutonic steora, a director; steoran, to steer; the principal director.]
A public civil officer, invested with the executive government of some branch of it. In this sense, a king is the highest or first magistrate as is the President of the United States. But the word is more particularly applied to subordinate officers, as governors, intendants, prefects, mayors, justices of the peace, and the like.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.