Strong's #1984: episkope (pronounced ep-is-kop-ay')

from 1980; inspection (for relief); by implication, superintendence; specially, the Christian "episcopate":--the office of a "bishop", bishoprick, visitation.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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episkopē

1) investigation, inspection, visitation

1a) that act by which God looks into and searches out the ways, deeds character, of men, in order to adjudge them their lot accordingly, whether joyous or sad

1b) oversight

1b1) overseership, office, charge, the office of an elder

1b2) the overseer or presiding officers of a Christian church

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G1980

Citing in TDNT: 2:606, 244

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

Luke 19:44: "because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation."
Acts 1:20: "therein: and his bishopric let another take."
1 Timothy 3:1: "saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work."
1 Peter 2:12: "glorify God in the day of visitation."