Lexical Summary
kubernésis: Administration, Governance, Leadership
Original Word: κυβέρνησις
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: kubernésis
Pronunciation: koo-ber'-nay-sis
Phonetic Spelling: (koo-ber'-nay-sis)
KJV: government
NASB: administrations
Word Origin: [from kubernao (of Latin origin, to steer)]
1. pilotage
2. (figuratively) directorship (in the assembly)
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
government.
From kubernao (of Latin origin, to steer); pilotage, i.e. (figuratively) directorship (in the church) -- government.
HELPS Word-studies
2941 kybérnēsis – properly, someone who steers (guides) a ship; (figuratively) the divine calling which empowers someone to lead in affairs relating to the Church. (2941 /kybérnēsis only occurs in 1 Cor 12:28.)
2941 /kybérnēsis ("a helmsman who steers") refers to a pilot (a captain, as in Plato) – a director who guides, administrates, etc. (Abbott-Smith).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom kubernaó (to steer, guide, govern)
Definitionsteering, government, administration
NASB Translationadministrations (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2941: κυβέρνησιςκυβέρνησις,
κυβερνήσεως,
ἡ (
κυβερνάω (Latin
gubernare, to govern)),
a governing, government:
1 Corinthians 12:28 (others would take it tropically here, and render it
wise counsels (
R. V. marginal reading); so
Hesychius:
κυβερνήσεις.
προνοητικαι ἐπίστημαι καί φρονησεις; cf. Schleusner, Thesaurus in the
Sept., under the word, and to the references below add
Proverbs 11:14;
Job 37:12 Symm.); (
Proverbs 1:5;
Proverbs 24:6;
Pindar,
Plato,
Plutarch, others).
