Category:Servitor

Serv"i*tor, n. Etym: [l., fr. servire to serve: cf. F. serviteur.]

1. One who serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts under Another; a follower or adherent. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak.

2. (univ. of oxford, eng.)

Defn: an undergraduate, partly supported by the college funds, whose Duty it formerly was to wait at table. A servitor corresponded to a Sizar in cambridge and dublin universities.

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Servitor - Occurs only in 2 Kings 4:43, Authorized Category:Version (R.V., "servant"). The Hebrew word there rendered "servitor" is elsewhere rendered "minister," "servant" (Exodus 24:13; Exodus 33:11). Probably Gehazi, the personal attendant on Elisha, is here meant.