Lexical Summary allotrioepiskopos: one who meddles in things alien to his calling Original Word: ἀλλοτριοεπίσκοποςTransliteration: allotrioepiskopos Phonetic Spelling: (al-lot-ree-ep-is'-kop-os) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: one who meddles in things alien to his calling Meaning: one who meddles in things alien to his calling Strong's Concordance 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 Thayer's Greek Lexicon 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 Latindelator.) 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)). |
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