G1985 – episkopos – ἐπίσκοπος – bishop, overseer
- Strong’s ID:
- G1985
- Greek Word:
- ἐπίσκοπος
- Transliteration:
- episkopos
- Pronunciation:
- ep-is’-kop-os
- Part of Speech:
- noun masculine
- Usage Count:
- 7
- Search:
- Find “episkopos” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
from G1909 and G4649 (in the sense of G1983); a superintendent, i.e. Christian officer in genitive case charge of a (or the) church (literally or figuratively):—bishop, overseer.
Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.
Thayer’s Greek Definitions
1) an overseer
1a) a man charged with the duty of seeing that things to be done by others are done rightly, any curator, guardian or superintendent
1b) the superintendent, elder, or overseer of a Christian church
Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.