Greek noun (masculine) · G2012
ἐπίτροπος
epitroposep-it'-rop-os
an administrator, a steward; a guardian
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: epítropos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2012is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2012
a commissioner, i.e. domestic manager, guardian
The King James renders it: steward, tutor.
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
epitropos is rendered "an administrator, a steward; a guardian". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "an administrator, a steward".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 20:8When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last ones hired and moving on to the first.’
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last ones hired and moving on to the first.’
Matthew 20:8ἐπιτρόπῳ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Matthew.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: an administrator, a steward, and a guardian.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| an administrator, a stewardMat.20:3, Luk.8:3. | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 20:3About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. |
| a guardianwith genitive of person(s), 2Mac, ll. with): Gal.4:2.† (AS | Tagged as
| WhereGalatians 4:2He is subject to guardians and trustees until the date set by his father. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐπιτίθημι | epitithemi | to put/lay on | Uses38 |
| ἐπιτιμάω | epitimao | to rebuke | Uses29 |
| ἐπιτρέπω | epitrepo | to permit | Uses18 |
| ἐπιτάσσω | epitasso | to command | Uses10 |
| ἐπιτελέω | epiteleo | to complete | Uses10 |
| ἐπιταγή | epitage | command | Uses6 |
| ἐπιτυγχάνω | epitynchano | to obtain | Uses5 |
| ἐπιτιμία | epitimia | punishment | Uses1 |
| ἐπιτροπή | epitrope | commission | Uses1 |
| ἐπιτήδειος | epitedeios | necessary | Uses1 |
All 3, 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
- ἐπιτρόπου1
- ἐπιτρόπους1
- ἐπιτρόπῳ1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural1N-APM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular1N-DSM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1N-GSM
Matthew
one use
When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last ones hired and moving on to the first.’
- ἐπιτρόπῳepitroponoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: foreman
Luke
one use
Joanna the wife of Herod’s household manager Chuza, Susanna, and many others. These women were ministering to them out of their own means.
- ἐπιτρόπουepitropounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: a steward
Galatians
one use
He is subject to guardians and trustees until the date set by his father.
- ἐπιτρόπουςepitropousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: guardians
Where it leads
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.