The meaning of Overseer in the Bible
(From International Standard Bible Encyclopedia)

o-ver-se'-er, or -ser': One who overlooks, inspects; in the Old Testament from natsach (II Chronicles 2:18; in II Chronicles 34:13 the Revised Version (British and American) changes to "set forward"), and paqadh (Genesis 39:4-5; II Chronicles 34:12, II Chronicles 34:17; the Revised Version (British and American) has this word for the King James Version "officers" in Genesis 41:34, and for "rulers" in I Chronicles 26:32); in the New Testament once for episkopos, in Acts 20:28, where the Revised Version (British and American) has "bishops" (margin "overseers"; compare I Peter 5:2).

See BISHOP.


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