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Sceptre
(Heb. shebet = Gr. skeptron), properly a staff or rod. As a symbol of authority, the use of the sceptre originated in the idea that the ruler was as a shepherd of his people (Gen 49:10; Num 24:17; Ps 45:6; Isa 14:5). There is no example on record of a sceptre having ever been actually handled by a Jewish king.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
