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σκῆπτρον (skēptron) a chiefdom ^G:N-N

σκῆπτρον, τό:

Doric dialect σκᾶπτον [Refs 5th c.BC+], later σκᾶπτρον [σκῆπτρον">Refs 1st c.BC+] in Lyric poetry passages of Trag., as [Refs 5th c.BC+]: (σκήπτω):— staff or stick, used by the lame or aged, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; σκήπτρῳ προδεικνύς, of a blind man feeling his way, [Refs 5th c.BC+] his staffs or supports, [Refs 5th c.BC+] —the Prose word is βακτηρία.

__II staff or baton, especially as the badge of command, sceptre: in [Refs 8th c.BC+] borne by kings and chiefs, and transmitted from father to son (whence [Refs 8th c.BC+]: also borne by heralds, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; by speakers, who on rising to speak received it from the herald, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; by priests and soothsayers, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; later by minstrels, first in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; wrought by Hephaestus, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὁ δ᾽ ὅρκος ἦν τοῦ σ. ἐπανάτασις [Refs 4th c.BC+]; used as a stick or cudgel to punish the refractory, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II.2 as a symbol of royalty, kingly power, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὸ θεῖον Διὸς σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]: frequently in plural in this sense, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τύραννα σ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III = Hebrew “Shevet”, of the tribes (φυλαί) of Israel, [σκῆπτρον). ">LXX]
__IV ={λυχνὶς στεφανωματική}, Ps.[Refs 1st c.AD+]

_{LSJ Scripture Refs: LXX.1Kgs.11.13 ☩ LXX.1Kgs.10.20}