Strong's Concordance
epitropos: an administrator (one having authority)
Original Word: ἐπίτροπος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: epitropos
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-it'-rop-os)
Short Definition: a steward, guardian
Definition: (a) (procurator) a steward, (b) (tutor) a guardian (appointed for an infant [under 14 perhaps] by the father or by a magistrate).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2012: ἐπίτροποςἐπίτροπος,
ἐπιτρόπου,
ὁ (
ἐπιτρέπω), universally,
one to whose care or honor anything has been intrusted; a curator, guardian, (
Pindar Ol. 1, 171, et al.;
Philo de mundo § 7
ὁ Θεός καί πατήρ καί τεχνίτης καί ἐπίτροπος τῶν ἐν οὐρανῷ τέ καί ἐν κόσμῳ). Specifically,
1. a steward or manager of a household, or of lands; an overseer: Matthew 20:8; Luke 8:3; Xenophon, oec. 12, 2; 21, 9; (Aristotle, oec. 1, 5 (p. 1344a, 26) δούλων δέ εἴδη δύω, ἐπίτροπος καί ἐργάτης).
2. one who has the care and tutelage of children, either where the father is dead (a guardian of minors: 2 Macc. 11:1 2Macc. 13:2; ἐπίτροπος ὀρθανων, Plato, legg. 6, p. 766 c.; Plutarch, Lyc. 3; Cam. 15), or where the father still lives (Aelian v. h. 3, 26): Galatians 4:2.
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
steward, guardian
From epi and tropos (in the sense of epitrope); a commissioner, i.e. Domestic manager, guardian -- steward, tutor.
see GREEK epi
see GREEK tropos
see GREEK epitrope
Forms and Transliterations
επιτροπου επιτρόπου ἐπιτρόπου επιτροπους επιτρόπους ἐπιτρόπους επιτροπω επιτρόπω ἐπιτρόπῳ epitropo epitropō epitrópoi epitrópōi epitropou epitrópou epitropous epitrópous
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