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ser⋅vi⋅tor

  [sur-vi-ter]
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–noun
1. a person who is in or at the service of another; attendant.
2. a glass worker who blocks the gather and does the preliminary blowing of glass for the gaffer.
Origin:
1300–50; ME servitour < AF < LL servītor, equiv. to L servī(re) to serve + -tor -tor
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ser·vi·tor   (sûr'vĭ-tər, -tôr')   
n.  One that performs the duties of a servant to another; an attendant.

[Middle English servitour, from Anglo-Norman, from Latin servītor, from servīre, to serve; see serve.]
ser'vi·tor·ship' n.
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Servitor

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

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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