Words the Bible translates as oversight
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 3 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
+1 more meaning
- 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
- peqidutפְּקִדֻתoversightnot studied yet
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