STRONGS G1988:
ἐπιστάτης,
-ου,
ὁ, (
ἐφίστημι),
any sort of a superintendent or
overseer (often so in secular writings, and several times in the
Sept., as
Exodus 1:11;
Exodus 5:14;
1 Kings 5:16;
2 Kings 25:19;
Jeremiah 36:26 (
Jer. 29:26);
2 Chronicles 2:2;
2 Chronicles 31:12);
a master, used in this sense for
רַבִּי by the disciples [cf.
Luke 17:13] when addressing Jesus, who called him thus "not from the fact that he was a teacher, but because of his authority" (Bretschneider); found only in
Luke 5:5;
Luke 8:24,
45;
Luke 9:33,
49;
Luke 17:13.
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