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12 Even as you, friends, live among the world’s people, maintain your good conduct so that when they slander you by calling you ‘evil’, at the time of God’s judgement they’ll have to honour god when they see your good behaviour.

OET-LV PE1 2:12

12 having the good conduct of _you _all among the pagans, in _order _that at which they _are _slandering against _you _all as of _evildoers, by observing your good works, they _may _glorify the god in the_day of _visitation.

Sense 2: office, position, ministry as church leader

Semantic entry: 53.69

Semantic domains: Religious Activities

Subdomains: Roles and Functions

Definition: a religious role involving both service and leadership

Notes: See discussion at 53.71: ἐπίσκοπος. For a more probable interpretation of ἐπισκοπή in RV ACT 1:20 · LV ACT 1:20 · Read together ACT 1:20, see 35.40: ἐπισκοπή.

ACT 1:20: RV ACT 1:20 · LV ACT 1:20 · Read together ACT 1:20

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OET-RV ACT 1:20

20 Now it was written in the scroll of songs:
⇔ ‘Let his place become deserted with no one living there,’
§ and
⇔ ‘Let another person take his position.’

OET-LV ACT 1:20

20 For/Because it _has _been _written in scroll of _psalms, the the_homestead of _him Let _be _become desolate, and let_ not _be the one dwelling in it, and:
let_ another _take The overseeing of _him.

TI1 3:1: RV TI1 3:1 · LV TI1 3:1 · Read together TI1 3:1

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OET-RV TI1 3:1

3 This is a trustworthy saying: ‘If anyone is aspiring to be an overseer, then it’s a good task that he’s desiring.’

OET-LV TI1 3:1

3 The saying is trustworthy:
If anyone is _aspiring to _overseeing, he _is _desiring of_a_good work.

Sense 3: position of responsibility, position of oversight

Semantic entry: 35.40

Semantic domains: Help, Care For

Subdomains: Care For, Take Care Of

Definition: (derivative of ἐπισκοπέω[a] ‘to take care of,’ 35.39: ἐπισκέπτομαι / 35.39: ἐπισκοπέω / 35.39: προνοέω) the position of one who has responsibility for the care of someone

Notes: Though in some contexts ἐπισκοπή has been regarded traditionally as a position of authority, in reality the focus is upon the responsibility for caring for others, and in the context of RV ACT 1:20 · LV ACT 1:20 · Read together ACT 1:20 the reference is clearly to the responsibility for caring for the church (see 53.69: ἐπισκοπή).

ACT 1:20: RV ACT 1:20 · LV ACT 1:20 · Read together ACT 1:20

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OET-RV ACT 1:20

20 Now it was written in the scroll of songs:
⇔ ‘Let his place become deserted with no one living there,’
§ and
⇔ ‘Let another person take his position.’

OET-LV ACT 1:20

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ἐπισκοπή

Form 1

Sense 1: coming, visitation

Sense 2: office, position, ministry as church leader

Sense 3: position of responsibility, position of oversight