{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "G1985",
  "lemma": "ἐπίσκοπος",
  "transliteration": "epískopos",
  "definition": "a superintendent, i.e. Christian officer in genitive case charge of a (or the) church (literally or figuratively)",
  "kjv": "bishop, overseer",
  "occurrences": 20,
  "language": "Greek",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "G1909",
      "lemma": "ἐπί",
      "transliteration": "epí",
      "meaning": "meaning superimposition",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/G1909"
    },
    {
      "id": "G4649",
      "lemma": "σκοπός",
      "transliteration": "skopós",
      "meaning": "perhaps akin to G4626",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/G4649"
    },
    {
      "id": "G1983",
      "lemma": "ἐπισκοπέω",
      "transliteration": "episkopéō",
      "meaning": "to oversee",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/G1983"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Acts 20:28",
      "text": "Take heed, therefore, to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/20?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Philippians 1:1",
      "text": "Paul and Timothy, servants of Yeshua the Messiah, to all the holy ones in Messiah Yeshua who are at Philippi, with the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/philippians/1?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Timothy 3:2",
      "text": "The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-timothy/3?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Titus 1:7",
      "text": "For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/titus/1?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Peter 2:25",
      "text": "For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-peter/2?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Wisdom of Solomon 1:6",
      "text": "For wisdom is a spirit who loves man, and she will not hold a blasphemer guiltless for his lips, because God is witness…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/wisdom-of-solomon/1?v=6"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Maccabees 1:51",
      "text": "He wrote according to all these words to his whole kingdom. He appointed overseers over all the people, and he…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh-gr/1-maccabees/1?v=51"
    }
  ],
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