Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude. 2. (a.) Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people. 3. (a.) Conducted by persons chosen to represent, or act as deputies for, the people; as, a representative government. 4. (a.) Serving or fitted to present the full characters of the type of a group; typical; as, a representative genus in a family. 5. (a.) Similar in general appearance, structure, and habits, but living in different regions; -- said of certain species and varieties. 6. (a.) Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8. 7. (n.) One who, or that which, represents (anything); that which exhibits a likeness or similitude. 8. (n.) An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority. 9. (n.) One who represents, or stands in the place of, another. 10. (n.) A member of the lower or popular house in a State legislature, or in the national Congress. 11. (n.) That which presents the full character of the type of a group. 12. (n.) A species or variety which, in any region, takes the place of a similar one in another region.

Multi-Version Concordance Representative (10 Occurrences) John 5:43 I have come as my Father's representative, and you do not receive me. If some one else comes representing only himself, him you will receive. (WEY) Ephesians 6:20 For which I am a representative in chains, and that I may say without fear the things which it is right for me to say. (BBE) Philemon 1:13 It was my wish to keep him at my side for him to attend to my wants, as your representative, during my imprisonment for the Good News. (WEY) Hebrews 3:1 For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith; (BBE) Exodus 18:19 Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him: (BBE NAS NIV) 2 Samuel 15:3 Absalom said to him, "Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you." (See NIV) 1 Kings 22:48 And the representative of King Jehoshaphat made a Tarshish-ship to go to Ophir for gold, but it did not go, because it was broken at Ezion-geber. (BBE) Nehemiah 11:24 Pethahiah the son of Meshezabel, of the children of Zerah the son of Judah, was at the king's hand in all matters concerning the people. (See NAS) Jeremiah 49:14 Word has come to me from the Lord, and a representative has been sent to the nations, to say, Come together and go up against her, and take your places for the fight. (BBE) Obadiah 1:1 The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord has said about Edom: We have had word from the Lord, and a representative has been sent among the nations, saying, Up! and let us make war against her. (BBE)