What Does “Armor-bearer” Mean in the Bible?
Office or title
The young man who went with a warrior and carried his weapons.
Where it appears in the Bible
1 Samuel 14:1
What the Bible says
1 Samuel 14:1
Now it came to pass one day that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man that bore his armour: Come, and let us go over to the garrison of the Philistines, which is on the other side of yonder place. But he told not this to his father.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “escudero”