episkopos · overseer

What it means

episkopos (ἐπίσκοπος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “overseer”.

One who watches over and cares for others, a leader in charge of the assembly.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. One who cares for and watches over the assembly.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• overseer ×3
• overseers ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Acts×1
• Philippians×1
• 1 Timothy×1
• Titus×1
• 1 Peter×1

• Acts 20:28

  Pay attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

• Philippians 1:1

  Paul and Timothy, slaves of the Messiah Jesus, to all the saints in the Messiah Jesus who are in Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

• 1 Timothy 3:2

  So the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober, sensible, orderly, hospitable, able to teach,

• Titus 1:7

  For the overseer must be blameless as God’s steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to drink, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain,

• 1 Peter 2:25

  For you were like sheep going astray, but you have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.