Strong's Concordance
eparchia: sphere of duty, province
Original Word: ἐπαρχία, ας, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: eparchia
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ar-khee'-ah)
Short Definition: sphere of duty, province
Definition: sphere of duty, province.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1885: ἐπάρχειοςἐπάρχειος,
ἐπαρχειον, "belonging to an
ἔπαρχος or prefect";
ἐπάρχειος namely,
ἐξουσία, equivalent to
ἡ ἐπαρχίᾳ (see the following word),
a perfecture, province:
Acts 25:1 T WH marginal reading So
ἡ ἐπαρχιος,
Eusebius,
h. e. 2, 10, 3 (with the variant
ἐπαρχειον); 2, 26, 2; 3, 33, 3; de mart. Pal. 8, 1; 13, 11.
