πράκτωρ, πρακτορος, ὁ (πράσσω); 1. one who does anything, a doer (Sophocles). 2. "one who does the work of inflicting punishment or taking vengeance; especially the avenger of a murder (Aeschylus, Sophocles); the exactor of a pecuniary fine" ((Antiphon), Demosthenes, others); an officer of justice of the tower order whose business it is to inflict punishment: Luk_12:58.

πράκτωρ praktōr 2x an exactor of dues or penalties; an officer who enforced payment of debts by imprisonment, Luk_12:58

πράκτωρ , -ορος , ὁ ( < πράσσω ), [in LXX : Isa_3:12 ( H5066 ) * ;] 1. (poλt.) one who does or accomplishes . 2. In Athens, one who exacts payment, a collector; hence, generally ( freq . in Papyri, v. Deiss., BS , 154), a court officer : Luk_12:58 .†

πράκτωρ [page 533] πράκτωρ is very common in the papyri = a collector of revenue. According to GH ( Fayϋm Towns , p. 106) the πράκτωρ in Ptolemaic times was specially concerned with the exaction of fines or payments (cf. Wilcken Ostr. i. p. 564), but during the Roman period he was an ordinary collector of taxes. Exx. are P Petr II. 13 (17) .2 (B.C. 258 253) παραγέγραμμαι τῶι πράκτορι ὡς ὀ [φείλων ] πρὸς τὰ ἀμπελικά . . . I am returned to the tax-agent (or public accountant) as owing for the vine-tax . . ., P Magd 41 .5 (iii/B.C.) γράψας τῶι ξενικῶι πράκτορι πρᾶ [ξαι ] καὶ ἀποδοῦναί μοι , P Fay 14 .1 (B.C. 124) οἱ προκεχιρισμένοι πράκτορες , the appointed collectors of the crown-tax issue a notice προσδιαγράψις ἀργυρίου δραχμὰς τέσσαρας , you are required to pay in addition four drachmae, BGU II. 530 .36 ff. (i/A.D.) (= Selections , p. 62 f.) ἄλλως τε καὶ ἀπαιτῖται ὑπὸ τῶν πρακτόρων ἱκανόν , especially security is demanded by the taxgatherers, and P Oxy IX. 1203 .11 (late i/A.D.) ἐκ τοῦ καταλογείου ὑπόμνημα πρὸς τὸν ἐνθάδε ξενικῶν πράκτορα , a memorandum from the bureau to the collector of external debts here (Ed. : see note ad l. ). In P Oxy XVI. 1829 .6 f. (c. A.D. 577 9?) the variant πράκτηρ is found : see the editors note. Πράκτωρ is still used technically in Luk_12:58 , the only place where it occurs in Biblical Greek, but the reference is apparently not to a finance official, but to an officer (usher) of the court. For the juxtaposition of πράκτωρ and ἀντίδικος , as in the Lukan passage, we may cite P Oxy III. 533 .11, .23 (ii/iii A.D.) The same papyrus shows .21 πρακτορεία , the post of collector.

πράκτωρ πράκτωρ, ορος, ὁ, [Etym: = πρακτήρ] "one who does or executes, an accomplisher", Soph. ; with a fem. Subst., id=Soph. "one who exacts payment, a tax-gatherer", Dem. , etc. in Poets also, "one who exacts punishment, a punisher, avenger", Aesch. , Soph. :—so as adj., with a fem. Subst., "avenging", Aesch.

πράκτωρ, -ορος, ὁ (πράσσω), [in LXX: Isa.3:12 (נָגַשׁ) * ;] __1. (poët.) one who does or accomplishes. __2. In Athens, one who exacts payment, a collector; hence, generally (frequently in π., see Deiss., BS, 154), a court officer: Luk.12:58.† (AS)