◄ 244. allotriepiskopos ► |
Lexicon allotriepiskopos: one who meddles in things alien to his calling Original Word: ἀλλοτριοεπίσκοπος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: allotriepiskopos Phonetic Spelling: (al-lot-ree-ep-is'-kop-os) Short Definition: a prier into other men's affairs Definition: one who meddles in things alien to his calling or in matters belonging to others; factious. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom allotrios and episkoposDefinitionone who meddles in things alien to his calling NASB Translationtroublesome meddler (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 244: ἀλλοτριοεπίσκοποςἀλλοτριοεπίσκοπος ( L T Tr WH ἀλλοτριεπ.), , ὁ ( ἀλλότριος and ἐπίσκοπος), "one who takes the supervision of affairs pertaining to others and in no wise to himself (a meddler in other men's matters)": 1 Peter 4:15 (the writer seems to refer to those who, with holy but intemperate zeal, meddle with the affairs of the Gentiles — whether public or private, civil or sacred — in order to make them conform to the Christian standard). (Hilgenfeld (cf. Einl. ins N. T., p. 630) would make it equivalent to the Latin delator.) The word is found again only in Dionysius, Areop. ep. 8, p. 783 (of one who intrudes into another's office), and (German of Const. ep. 2 ad Cypr. c. 9, in) Coteler. Eccl. Graec. Mon. 2:481 b.; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 25, 99 (94)).
Strong's busybody in others' matters. From allotrios and episkopos; overseeing others' affairs, i.e. A meddler (specially, in Gentile customs) -- busybody in other men's matters. see GREEK allotrios see GREEK episkopos |
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