Strong's Number 1985

The Linked Word Project
Transliteration:
episkopos {ep-is'-kop-os}
Word Origin:
from 1909 and 4649 (in the sense of 1983)
TDNT:
2:608,244
Part of Speech:
noun masculine
Usage in the KJV:
bishop 6, overseer 1

Total: 7
Definition:
  1. an overseer
    1. a man charged with the duty of seeing that things to be done by others are done rightly, any curator, guardian or superintendent
    2. the superintendent, elder, or overseer of a Christian church
TDNT - Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
TWOT - Theological Word Book of the Old Testament