epitropos

Strong’sG2012

a steward, guardian

stem epitrop-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books3 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

** ἐπίτροπος, -ου, ὁ

(< ἐπιτρέπω), [in LXX: II Mac 11:1 13:2 14:2 *;]

1. an administrator, a steward: Mt 20:8, Lk 8:3.

2. a guardian (c. gen. pers., II Mac, ll. c.): Ga 4:2.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2012 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidep-it'-rop-os

a commissioner, i.e. domestic manager, guardian

Fromfrom G1909 and G5158 (in the sense of G2011);

King Jamessteward, tutor.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἐπίτροπ-ος, ον,
(ἐπιτρέπω) one to whom the charge of anything is entrusted, steward, trustee, administrator, c.genitive of things, τῶν ἑωυτοῦ NT+5th c.BC+; steward, messman, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 = Latin procurator, Καίσαρος ἐ. Refs 1st c.BC+; ἐ. Σεβαστοῦ, -τῶν, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ἐ. τῆς Ἠπείρου Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 governor, viceroy, οἱ ἐ. τῆς Μέμφιος, Μιλήτου ἐ., Refs 5th c.BC+
4 executor, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II c.genitive person, trustee, guardian, NT+5th c.BC+: metaphorically, guardian, protector, θεὸς ἐ. ἐών Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

foreman1×guardians1×steward1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	epitropos	epitropois
object accusative	epitropon	epitropoin1×ἐπιτρόπους
direct address vocative	epitropor	epitropoir
of, belonging to genitive	epitropou1×ἐπιτρόπου	epitropoiu
to, for dative	epitropo1×ἐπιτρόπῳ	epitropoi

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

epitropstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

epitropo is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

epitropas — ἐπιτροπή, commission, full power

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

3 occurrences, every one of them listed

epitropou“steward”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Luke 8:3“steward”kai Iōannas gunaikas Chouzou epitropou Hērōdou kai Sousannas kai heterais pollais, …Joanna the wife of Herod’s household manager Chuza, Susanna, and many others. These women …

epitropo“foreman”to, fordative singular1×

Matthew 20:8… legatō tos kurios tou ampelōnou to epitropo autou; Kalasar toin ergatoin kai apodōasar …… of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them …

epitropoin“guardians”objectaccusative plural1×

Galatians 4:2alla hupo epitropoin atō kai oikonomoin achri tau prothesmiau …He is subject to guardians and trustees until the date set …