Bible Dictionary: Oversee

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To superintend; to watch over; to direct; to look or see after; to overlook.

2. (v. t.) To omit or neglect seeing.

3. (v. i.) To see too or too much; hence, to be deceived.

Greek

1983. episkopeo -- to look upon, fig. to care for
... look diligently, take the oversight. From epi and skopeo; to oversee; by implication,
to beware -- look diligently, take the oversight. see GREEK epi. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5329. natsach -- preeminent or enduring
... 5328, 5329. natsach. 5330 . preeminent or enduring. Transliteration: natsach
Phonetic Spelling: (naw-tsakh') Short Definition: oversee. Word Origin a prim. ...
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6485. paqad -- to attend to, visit, muster, appoint
... A primitive root; to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); by analogy,
to oversee, muster, charge, care for, miss, deposit, etc. ...
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Library

the Nature of this Oversight
... Will God require one bishop to take the charge of a whole county, or of so many
parishes or thousands of souls, as he is not able to know or to oversee? ...
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V. ...
... attendance. Those elders, says St. Peter, who are to care for and to oversee
the people, do I admonish, who am also one. Hence you ...
/.../the epistles of st peter and st jude preached and explained/chapter v v .htm

The Acts of Barnabus.
... in Antioch, on the first of the week they took counsel together to set out for the
places of the East, and after that to go into Cyprus, and oversee all the ...
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Pray for the Church in Syria.
... God for its shepherd, instead of me. Jesus Christ alone will oversee it,
and your love [will also regard it]. But as for me, I am ...
/.../the epistle of ignatius to the romans/chapter ix pray for the church.htm

Motives to the Oversight of the Flock
... It is the Church of God which we must oversee - that Church for which the world
is chiefly upheld, which is sanctified by the Holy Ghost, which is the mystical ...
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The Sunday School or Church School
... Thus the modern school of the church would have at least twelve superintendents
to oversee its work, to say nothing of the special workers, such as Training ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/iv the sunday school or.htm

Appendix
... to apoynt bishops, civill overseers, or officers in awthoryty onder hime in ye severall
provinces, dioses, congregations or parishes, to oversee ye churches ...
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Concerning Widows.
... maintenance of a great number of children? It is thy duty to oversee all people,
and to take care of them all. For they that give gifts do ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec i concerning widows.htm

O virgin-Youth that Art Become Bridegroom, Move to a Little ...
... 3. A new shepherd for him it is right, that he should oversee the flock in new wise,
and should know what is the number of it, and should see what are its needs ...
/.../hymns and homilies of ephraim the syrian/hymn xx o virgin-youth that.htm

The Gnostic Aims at the Nearest Likeness Possible to God and his ...
... grievous pains, and unlooked-for accidents, and bidding defiance to events, say
that there is no God, or that, though existing, He does not oversee all things. ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter iii the gnostic aims at.htm

Thesaurus

Oversee (7 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To omit or neglect seeing. 3. (vi) To see too or too much; hence, to
be deceived. Multi-Version Concordance Oversee (7 Occurrences). ...
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Supervise (8 Occurrences)
... 1. (vt) To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as,
to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book. ...
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Overseeing (4 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Oversee. Multi-Version
Concordance Overseeing (4 Occurrences). 1 Peter 5:2 feed the ...
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Quarry (5 Occurrences)
... out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone
cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them. ...
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24000 (10 Occurrences)
... 1 Chronicles 23:4 Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the
house of Yahweh; and six thousand were officers and judges; (See NAS). ...
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80000 (3 Occurrences)
... out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone
cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them. ...
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3600 (2 Occurrences)
... out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone
cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them. ...
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Obadiah (21 Occurrences)
... (9) One of the princes sent by Jehoshaphat to teach the law in Judah (2 Chronicles
17:7). (10) A Merarite employed by Josiah to oversee the workmen in ...
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Over-running (1 Occurrence)
Over-running. Overrunning, Over-running. Oversee . Multi-Version Concordance ...
(ASV WBS). Overrunning, Over-running. Oversee . Reference Bible.
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Loads (12 Occurrences)
... out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone
cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them. ...
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Bible Concordance

Oversee (7 Occurrences)

1 Kings 5:16 In addition to the chiefs of the responsible men put by Solomon to oversee the work, three thousand and three hundred in authority over the workmen.
(BBE DBY)

1 Chronicles 9:29 Some of them also were appointed to oversee the vessels, and all the instruments of the sanctuary, and the fine flour, and the wine, and the oil, and the frankincense, and the spices.
(KJV WBS)

1 Chronicles 15:21 and Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps, on the octave, to oversee.
(YLT)

1 Chronicles 23:4 Of these, twenty-four thousand were to oversee the work of the house of Yahweh; and six thousand were officers and judges;
(WEB JPS ASV BBE WBS NAS)

2 Chronicles 2:2 Solomon counted out seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men who were stone cutters in the mountains, and three thousand and six hundred to oversee them.
(WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE WBS YLT RSV)

Ezra 3:8 Now in the second year of their coming into the house of God in Jerusalem, in the second month, the work was taken in hand by Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all those who had come from the land where they were prisoners to Jerusalem: and they made the Levites, of twenty years old and over, responsible for overseeing the work of the house of the Lord.
(Root in BBE NAS)

Ezra 3:9 Then Jeshua with his sons and his brothers, Kadmiel with his sons, the sons of Hodaviah, together took up the work of overseeing the workmen in the house of God: the sons of Henadad with their sons and their brothers, the Levites.
(Root in BBE NAS)

Subtopics

Oversee

Related Terms

Supervise (8 Occurrences)

Overseeing (4 Occurrences)

Quarry (5 Occurrences)

24000 (10 Occurrences)

80000 (3 Occurrences)

3600 (2 Occurrences)

Obadiah (21 Occurrences)

Over-running (1 Occurrence)

Loads (12 Occurrences)