Strong's Number G3511
νεωκόρος
neokoros · neh-o-kor'-os
Transliteration:
neokoros{neh-o-kor'-os}
Word Origin:
from a form of 3485 and koreo (to sweep)
Part of Speech:
noun masculine
Strong's Definition:
a temple-servant, i.e. (by implication) a votary
Usage in the KJV:
Definition:
- one who sweeps and cleans a temple
- one who has charge of a temple, to keep and adorn it, a sacristan
- the worshipper of a deity
- word appears from coins still extant, it was an honourary title [temple-keeper or temple-warden] of certain cities, esp. in Asia Minor, or in which some special worship of some deity or even some deified human ruler had been established; used of Ephesus
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