1) one who elicits the truth by the use of the rack
1a) an inquisitor, torturer also used of a jailer doubtless because the business of torturing was also assigned to him
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Citing in TDNT: 1:561, 96
G930
From G928; a torturer: - tormentor.
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These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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