Lexicon epitropos: an administrator (one having authority) Original Word: ἐπίτροπος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: epitropos Phonetic Spelling: (ep-it'-rop-os) Short Definition: a steward, guardian Definition: (a) (procurator) a steward, (b) (tutor) a guardian (appointed for an infant [under 14 perhaps] by the father or by a magistrate). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom epitrepóDefinitionan administrator (one having authority) NASB Translationforeman (1), guardians (1), steward (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2012: ἐπίτροποςἐπίτροπος, ἐπιτρόπου, ὁ ( ἐπιτρέπω), universally, one to whose care or honor anything has been intrusted; a curator, guardian, ( Pindar Ol. 1, 171, et al.; Philo de mundo § 7 ὁ Θεός καί πατήρ καί τεχνίτης καί ἐπίτροπος τῶν ἐν οὐρανῷ τέ καί ἐν κόσμῳ). Specifically, 1. a steward or manager of a household, or of lands; an overseer: Matthew 20:8; Luke 8:3; Xenophon, oec. 12, 2; 21, 9; (Aristotle, oec. 1, 5 (p. 1344a, 26) δούλων δέ εἴδη δύω, ἐπίτροπος καί ἐργάτης). 2. one who has the care and tutelage of children, either where the father is dead (a guardian of minors: 2 Macc. 11:1 2Macc. 13:2; ἐπίτροπος ὀρθανων, Plato, legg. 6, p. 766 c.; Plutarch, Lyc. 3; Cam. 15), or where the father still lives (Aelian v. h. 3, 26): Galatians 4:2.
Strong's steward, guardian From epi and tropos (in the sense of epitrope); a commissioner, i.e. Domestic manager, guardian -- steward, tutor. see GREEK epi see GREEK tropos see GREEK epitrope |
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