Dict: easton - Sceptre

easton:

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 kjv@Genesis:49:10; kjv@Numbers:24:17; kjv@Psalms:45:6; kjv@Isaiah:14:5). There is no example on record of a sceptre having ever been actually handled by a Jewish king.