See Bishop.<\/p>\n
(usually , pakid’, visitor, Gen 39:4; Gen 41:34; but Piel of , to preside, in 2Ch 2:2; 2Ch 2:18; 2Ch 34:13; , in Pro 6:7; , a bishop, in Act 20:28), not only an officer who had the superintendence of the household, as Joseph had in that of Pontiphar, but also an overlooker of work-men, as those appointed by Solomon (2Ch 2:18) SEE OFFICER. We read that Pharaoh set taskmasters or overseers, over the children of Israel, who made their lives bitter with hard bondage (Exo 1:14), a statement fully confirmed by the monuments, where the taskmasters are uniformly represented armed with cudgels. SEE BASTINADO. In the margins of many of the Psalms, the Hebrew word is properly rendered overseer, meaning probably the chief musician, as the text has it. (See Gesenius, Thesaur. s.v.) SEE CHIEF MUSICIAN.<\/p>\n
SEE BISHOP; SEE EPISCOPACY; SEE PRELACY.<\/p>\n
o-ver-seer, or -ser: One who overlooks, inspects; in the Old Testament from , nacah (2Ch 2:18; in 2Ch 34:13 the Revised Version (British and American) changes to set forward), and , pakadh (Gen 39:4, Gen 39:5; 2Ch 34:12, 2Ch 34:17; the Revised Version (British and American) has this word for the King James Version officers in Gen 41:34, and for rulers in 1Ch 26:32); in the New Testament once for , epskopos, in Act 20:28, where the Revised Version (British and American) has bishops (margin overseers; compare 1Pe 5:2). See BISHOP.<\/p>\n
Used in scripture for any one that had the oversight or leadership of others. Gen 39:4-5, etc. In the A.V. it is once the translation of , Act 20:28, which is elsewhere translated BISHOP, q.v. <\/p>\n
General references<\/p>\n
Mat 24:48-49<\/span> Bishop<\/span> <\/p>\n * For OVERSEER see BISHOP <\/p>\n Overseer See Bishop. Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church Overseer (usually , pakid’, visitor, Gen 39:4; Gen 41:34; but Piel of , to preside, in 2Ch 2:2; 2Ch 2:18; 2Ch 34:13; , in Pro 6:7; , a bishop, in Act 20:28), not only an officer who had the superintendence of the household, as Joseph had … Continue reading “Overseer”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Overseer<\/h2>\n
Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"