noun · masculine
neōkoros
Strong’sG3511
temple-warden
stem neōkor-once in the New Testament1 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.
* νεω-κόρος, -ου,
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3511 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidneh-o-kor'-os
a temple-servant, i.e. (by implication) a votary
Fromfrom a form of G3485 and κορέω (to sweep);
King Jamesworshipper.
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
Doric dialect νᾱοκόρος Refs 2nd c.BC+: contraction νᾱκόρος Refs 3rd c.BC+: as feminine, Refs 2nd c.AD+; ναυκόρος, ἡ, Buresch Aus Lydien p.58: poetry νηοκόρος Refs 1st c.AD+:—warden of a temple, as a sacred officer, τοῖς ἱεροῖς ν. γίγνεσθαι Refs 5th c.BC+; ἱερέας τε καὶ ν.Refs 5th c.BC+; βωμοῖο ν. Refs 1st c.AD+
2 sacristan, Refs 3rd c.BC+; ἐνβόλιον ἔχων ν. in a list of silver articles, Refs
II title assumed by Asiatic cities in Imperial times, when they had built a temple in honour of their patron-god or the Emperor, as Ephesus, ν. Ἀρτέμιδος NT; also as adjective, τῷ ν. Ἐφεσίων δήμῳ Refs 2nd c.AD+; δὶς ν. τῶν Σεβαστῶν, of Ephesus, Refs 2nd c.AD+; of Smyrna, Refs sweep, the originally sense being probably temple-sweeper,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.
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 | neōkoros | neōkorois |
| object accusative | neōkoron1×νεωκόρον | neōkoroin |
| direct address vocative | neōkoror | neōkoroir |
| of, belonging to genitive | neōkorou | neōkoroiu |
| to, for dative | neōkoro | neōkoroi |
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
neōkoro 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
neōkoron“temple keeper”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 19:35“temple keeper”… hos ouk gnōskatō tan Efesioiu polan neōkoron arōntan tau megau Artemiau kai teu …… doesn’t everyone know that the city of Ephesus is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her …