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Koine Greek wordlink #137374

SR GNT 1 Tim 3:2 ἐπίσκοπον (episkopon) ‘it is fitting therefore the overseer irreproachable to_be of one’ Strongs=19850 Lemma=episkopos
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=65 AD Referred to from Word #137396 Referred to from Word #137399 Referred to from Word #137401 Referred to from Word #137427 Referred to from Word #137436 Referred to from Word #137444

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Other uses (2) of identical word form ἐπίσκοπον (N-AMS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐπίσκοπον’ (N-AMS) is always and only glossed as ‘overseer’.

Tit 1:7 ‘it is fitting for the overseer unindictable to_be as’ SR GNT Tit 1:7 word 4

OET-LV: 7 For/Because it _is _fitting the overseer to _be unindictable as a_manager of_god, not self-willed, not easily _angered, not winebibbing, not a_bully, not greedy, (TIT_1:7)

OET-RV: 7 Any overseer in the assembly as a manager working for God must have a clean record, not be self-centred, not be quick to get angry, not addicted to wine, not a bully, and not greedy, (TIT 1:7)

1 Pet 2:25 ‘the shepherd and overseer of the souls of you_all’ SR GNT 1 Pet 2:25 word 15

OET-LV: 25 For/Because you _all _were like sheep being _strayed, but you _all _were _returned now to the shepherd and overseer of _the souls of _you _all. (PE1_2:25)

OET-RV: 25 He did all that because you were like lost sheep, but now you all have returned to the shepherd and the overseer of your souls. (PE1 2:25)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘episkopos’ have 3 different glosses: ‘the overseers’, ‘overseer’, ‘overseers’.

Key: N=noun AMS=accusative,masculine,singular