Reference: Orator
Fausets
(1) Isa 3:3, "the eloquent orator"; rather as Vulgate, "skilled in whispering," i.e. incantation (Ps 58:5), lachash.
(2) Tertullus, the Jewish accusers' advocate against Paul (Ac 24:1). Paul as a Roman citizen was tried with Roman judicial forms (Ac 25:9-10), the Roman lawyer pleading in Latin, as Norman French was formerly the language of law proceedings in England in Norman times.
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Hastings
The term applied in Ac 24:1 to Tertullus, who was the advocate for the high priest and elders against St. Paul. Men of this class were to be found in most of the provincial towns of the Roman Empire, ready to plead or defend any cause, and generally possessed of a certain amount of glib eloquence, with a due admixture of flattery.
Morley Stevenson.
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Morish
1. lachash. This is joined with 'eloquent' in Isa 3:3, A.V., but signifies 'a whisper,' 'incantation,' and may be translated 'one versed in enchantments.' The R.V. has 'skilful enchanter.' See DIVINATION.
2. ?????, 'a speaker.' At the trial of Paul before Felix, Tertullus was hired to argue their case, and plead for Paul's condemnation. Ac 24:1.
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Smith
Orator.
1. The Authorized Version rendering in
for what is literally "skillful in whisper or incantation."
2. The title applied to Tertullus, who appeared as the advocate of the Jewish accusers of St. Paul before Felix,