Strong's Lexicon

G244

G244 — ἀλλοτριεπίσκοπος

Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

GreekallotriepiskoposnounOccurrences: 1

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:G244
Word:ἀλλοτριεπίσκοπος
Part of Speech:noun
Etymology:from G245 and G1985
Language:Greek
Occurrences:1
Transliteration:allotriepiskopos
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:al-lot-ree-ep-is'-kop-os
Meaning:1. overseeing others' affairs, i.e. a meddler (specially, in Gentile customs)
KJV Renderings:busybody in other men's matters

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἀλλοτριοεπίσκοπος (L T Tr WH ἀλλοτριεπ.), , (ἀλλότριος and ἐπίσκοπος), "one who takes the supervision of affairs pertaining to others and in no wise to himself (a meddler in other men’s matters)": 1Pe 4:15 (the writer seems to refer to those who, with holy but intemperate zeal, meddle with the affairs of the Gentiles — whether public or private, civil or sacred — in order to make them conform to the Christian standard). (Hilgenfeld (cf. Einl. ins N. T., p. 630) would make it equivalent to the Latindelator.) The word is found again only in Dionysius, Areop. ep. 8, p. 783 (of one who intrudes into another’s office), and (German of Const. Eph 2:1-22 ad Cypr. c. 9, in) Coteler. Eccl. Graec. Mon. 2:481 b.; (cf. Winer’s Grammar, 25, 99 (94)).

Other Resources

Dictionary of New Testament Theology
Colin Brown

Englishman's Greek Concordance

ἀλλοτριοεπίσκοπος (busybody in other men's matters)

1 Peter 4:15

KJV: But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a busybody in other men’s matters
GK: μη γαρ τις υμών πασχέτω ως φονεύς η κλέπτης η κακοποιός η ως αλλοτριοεπίσκοπος
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