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An officer of high rank in the East; commander of the bodyguard who executed the king's sentence. So Potiphar ( margin, ); his official residence was at the public jail. So Nebuzaradan (), and Arioch (; ). "The king (Herod) sent an executioner," literally, one of his bodyguard; speculator, a military watch or scout, from the vigilance the office required.