Praktor denotes the official who receives a judge’s handover and commits a person to prison.

The attested use places the term in a legal sequence: after a judge hands a person over, this official carries out the confinement described in Luke 12:58.

1. Official carrying out judicial confinement · dominant

   In Luke 12:58, the dative singular masculine form occurs after the judge’s handover in the legal sequence. The APB renders the clause, “and the judge will hand you over to the bailiff, and the bailiff will throw you into prison,” presenting this figure as the official who effects imprisonment.

   Luke 12:58

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Luke 12:58, the APB presents the term as “the bailiff” between the judge’s handover and imprisonment. This rendering is confirmed by the clause’s legal sequence rather than treated as an isolated lexical equivalent.