Words the Bible translates as office
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 5 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- episkopēἐπισκοπήoffice of oversight: an appointed charge to watch over and care for others
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- visitation: the moment God comes near to attend to his people, whether to rescue or to hold them to account
- pequddahפְּקֻדָּהoversight: a charge or office entrusted to someone, with responsibility to answer for it
+3 more meanings
- a visitation: God's decisive coming to deal with a person or people, most often to punish and sometimes to help
- a mustering: the counting of people and the numbered company it produces
- a store: goods laid up or set in reserve
- kenכֵּןa stand: the fixed support something is set on, and so the post a person holds
- matstsavמַצָּבa fixed standing-place or post: the spot where someone stands, a military outpost, or the position a person holds
- ma'amadמַעֲמָדofficenot studied yet
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