G1985 ἐπίσκοπος
epískopos — a superintendent, i.e. Christian officer in genitive case charge of a (or the) church (literally or figuratively)
KJV: bishop, overseer
Built from ἐπί epí (meaning superimposition) + σκοπός skopós (perhaps akin to G4626) + ἐπισκοπέω episkopéō (to oversee)
Occurs 20 times. Every verse with this word
Where it occurs
- Acts 20:28 — Take heed, therefore, to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd…
- Philippians 1:1 — Paul and Timothy, servants of Yeshua the Messiah, to all the holy ones in Messiah Yeshua who are at Philippi, with the…
- 1 Timothy 3:2 — The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good…
- Titus 1:7 — For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not…
- 1 Peter 2:25 — For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
- Wisdom of Solomon 1:6 — For wisdom is a spirit who loves man, and she will not hold a blasphemer guiltless for his lips, because God is witness…
- 1 Maccabees 1:51 — He wrote according to all these words to his whole kingdom. He appointed overseers over all the people, and he…