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Overseer
Feature Pages(2)
- Feature1 Timothy — the Study GuideGuard the deposit: Paul's charge-and-deposit letter to Timothy at Ephesus, built around the mystery-of-godliness hymn and the three faithful sayings.
- FeatureElders and DeaconsThree words, one office — presbyteros, episkopos, poimēn used of the same men in Acts 20 — the 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1 qualification lists side by side, deacons from Acts 6 to Phoebe, and church-government forms named without adjudication.
Verses(5+)
- VerseProverbs 6:7Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,
- Verse1 Timothy 3:4An overseer must manage his own household well and keep his children under control, with complete dignity.
- Verse1 Timothy 3:1This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task.
- Verse1 Timothy 3:2An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
- Verse1 Peter 2:25For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
Words (Strong's)(5)
- WordH6485 פָּקַד · pâqad (Hebrew)to visit (with friendly or hostile intent)
- WordH7860 שֹׁטֵר · shôṭêr (Hebrew)properly, a scribe, i.e. (by analogy or implication) an official superintendent or magistrate
- WordG1985 ἐπίσκοπος · epískopos (Greek)a superintendent, i.e. Christian officer in genitive case charge of a (or the) church (literally or figuratively)
- WordH6496 פָּקִיד · pâqîyd (Hebrew)a superintendent (civil, military or religious)
- WordG3623 οἰκονόμος · oikonómos (Greek)a house-distributor (i.e. manager), or overseer, i.e. an employee in that capacity
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Apocrypha (study resources)(3)
- Study resource1 Maccabees 1:51In the selfsame manner wrote he to his whole kingdom, and appointed overseers over all the people, commanding the cities of Juda to sacrifice, city by city.
- Study resourceTobit 1:22And Achiacharus intreating for me, I returned to Nineve. Now Achiacharus was cupbearer, and keeper of the signet, and steward, and overseer of the accounts: and Sarchedonus…
- Study resource1 Maccabees 10:37And of them some shall be placed in the king’s strong holds, of whom also some shall be set over the affairs of the kingdom, which are of trust: and I will that their overseers…
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H6485פָּקַד pâqad — to visit (with friendly or hostile intent)H7860שֹׁטֵר shôṭêr — properly, a scribe, i.e. (by analogy or implication) an official superintendent or magistrateG1985ἐπίσκοπος epískopos — a superintendent, i.e.
Christian officer in genitive case charge of a (or the) church
(literally or figuratively)H6496פָּקִיד pâqîyd — a superintendent (civil, military or religious)G3623οἰκονόμος oikonómos — a house-distributor (i.e. manager), or
overseer, i.e. an employee in that capacity