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Strong's #3511: neokoros (pronounced neh-o-kor'-os)

from a form of 3485 and koreo (to sweep); a temple-servant, i.e. (by implication) a votary:--worshipper.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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neōkoros

1) one who sweeps and cleans a temple

2) one who has charge of a temple, to keep and adorn it, a sacristan

3) the worshipper of a deity

3a) word appears from coins still extant, it was an honourary title [temple-keeper or temple-warden] of certain cities, especially in Asia Minor, or in which some special worship of some deity or even some deified human ruler had been established; used of Ephesus

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from a form of G3485 and koreo (to sweep)




Usage:

This word is used 1 times:

Acts 19:35: "how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper of the great goddess"









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