ἘΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΥΣ, ἐπισκοπους
EPISKOPOUS, episkopous
Sounds Like: ep-is-KO-pous
Translations: overseers, bishops, superintendents
From the root: ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to an overseer, superintendent, or bishop. It describes someone who has the responsibility of watching over or supervising others, often in an administrative or spiritual capacity. It is used to denote a leader or manager.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G1985 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Rome
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Philadelphians — 10:2
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Acts — 20:28
Twelve Disciples
- The Didache — 15:1
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΠΙΣΚὈΠΟΥ — of a bishop, of an overseer, of a superintendent
- ἘΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΙ — overseers, supervisors, superintendents, bishops
- ἘΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΙΠ — overseers, bishops
- ἘΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΙΣ — to overseers, to bishops, to superintendents, to guardians, to inspectors
- ἘΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΝ — overseer, a bishop, a superintendent
- ἘΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΟΥ — of an overseer, of a bishop, of a superintendent
- ἘΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΣ — overseer, a bishop, superintendent, guardian
- ἘΠΙΣΟΠΟΝ — a bishop, overseer, superintendent
- ἘΠΙΣΠΟΠΟΥ — of a bishop, of a superintendent, of an overseer
- ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΙ — overseers, bishops
- ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΙΣ — to overseers, to bishops, to superintendents, to guardians, for overseers, for bishops, for superintendents, for guardians
- ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΝ — overseer, a bishop, superintendent
- ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΣ — overseer, a overseer, bishop, a bishop, superintendent, a superintendent
- ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΥ — of overseer, of bishop, of superintendent
- ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΥΣ — bishops, overseers, superintendents
- ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΩΝ — of overseers, of bishops
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