Definition

inspection (for relief); by implication, superintendence; specially, the Christian "episcopate"

Etymology

from G1980 (ἐπισκέπτομαι);

Where the KJV renders it

• the office of a "bishop"
• bishoprick
• visitation

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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