Original: νεωκόρος

Transliteration: neōkóros

Phonetic: neh-o-kor'-os

Short Definition: Worshipper

- Original: νεωκόρος

- Transliteration: Neokoros

- Phonetic: neh-o-kor'-os

- Definition:

1. one who sweeps and cleans a temple

2. one who has charge of a temple, to keep and adorn it, a sacristan

3. the worshipper of a deity

a. 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

- Origin: from a form of G3485 and koreo (to sweep)

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine

- Strong's: From a form of G3485 and κορέω koreō (to sweep); a temple servant that is (by implication) a votary: - worshipper.