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Koine Greek wordlink #139992

SR GNT Tit 1:7 ἐπίσκοπον (episkopon) ‘it is fitting for the overseer unindictable to_be as’ Strongs=19850 Lemma=episkopos
Word role=noun case=accusative gender=masculine number=singular
Year=65 AD Referred to from Word #140015 Referred to from Word #140024 Referred to from Word #140026 Referred to from Word #140038

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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’.

1 Tim 3:2 ‘it is fitting therefore the overseer irreproachable to_be of one’ SR GNT 1 Tim 3:2 word 5

OET-LV: 2 Therefore it _is _fitting the overseer to _be irreproachable, the_husband of _one wife, sober, sensible, respectable, hospitable, teaching, (TI1_3:2)

OET-RV: 2 So it’s fitting that an overseer be above reproach, be the husband of one wife, sober, sensible, respectable, hospitable, a good teacher, (TI1 3:2)

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