Greek noun (masculine) · G1985
ἐπίσκοπος
episkoposep-is'-kop-os
overseer
5 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: epískopos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1985is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1985
a superintendent, i.e. Christian officer in genitive case charge of a (or the) church (literally or figuratively)
The King James renders it: bishop, overseer.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
episkopos is rendered "overseer". It stands 5 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 20:28Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
Acts 20:28ἐπισκόπους
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in five of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- overseer3
- overseers2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐπιστρέφω | epistrepho | to turn | Uses36 |
| ἐπιστολή | epistole | epistle | Uses24 |
| ἐπίσταμαι | epistamai | to know/understand | Uses14 |
| ἐπισκέπτομαι | episkeptomai | to visit/care for | Uses11 |
| ἐπισυνάγω | episynago | to gather | Uses8 |
| ἐπιστάτης | epistates | master | Uses7 |
| ἐπισκιάζω | episkiazo | to overshadow | Uses5 |
| ἐπισκοπή | episkope | oversight | Uses4 |
| ἐπιστηρίζω | episterizo | to strengthen | Uses4 |
| ἐπιστέλλω | epistello | to write to | Uses3 |
| ἐπίσημος | episemos | notable | Uses2 |
| ἐπισκοπέω | episkopeo | to oversee/care for | Uses2 |
and 12 more on the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐπίσκοπον3
- ἐπισκόποις1
- ἐπισκόπους1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular3N-ASM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural1N-APM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1N-DPM
Acts
one use
Keep watch over yourselves and the entire flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.
- ἐπισκόπουςepiskopousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: overseers
Philippians
one use
Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons:
- ἐπισκόποιςepiskopoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: overseers
1 Timothy
one use
An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
- ἐπίσκοπονepiskoponnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: overseer
Titus
one use
As God’s steward, an overseer must be above reproach—not self-absorbed, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not greedy for money.
- ἐπίσκοπονepiskoponnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: overseer
1 Peter
one use
For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
- ἐπίσκοπονepiskoponnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: Overseer
Where it leads
On this page
Studies2
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.