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κυβέρνησις

kybérnēsis · G2941 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. guidance, leadership

    (Derivative of κυβερνάω ‘to steer a ship, to guide,’ not occurring in the NT) The ability to lead

    Examples

    1 Corinthians 12:28 And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, and various kinds of tongues.

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

In the other Testament 1 word
תַּחְבֻּלָה tachbulâh · H8458 · guidance, strategy
Hebrew term for guidance/direction, particularly in the context of wise leadership or steering (Prov 1:5, 11:14, 24:6); semantically equivalent to the Greek metaphor of pilotage as directorship.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Guidance, leadership36.3
κυβέρνησις names the gift of administration or leadership within the church. 1 Corinthians 12:28 lists among the gifts God has appointed, “helps, administrations, and various kinds of tongues,” the κυβερνήσεις naming this gift of administrative leadership.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

κυβέρνησιςkybérnēsis · G2941κυβερνήτης kybernḗtēs · G2942 · captain of a ship · 2×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κυβερνήσεως, ἡ (κυβερνάω (Latingubernare, to govern)), a governing, government: 1 Cor…
κυβερνήσεως, ἡ (κυβερνάω (Latingubernare, to govern)), a governing, government: 1 Cor 12:28 (others would take it tropically here, and render it wise counsels (R. V. marginal reading); so Hesychius: κυβερνήσεις. προνοητικαι ἐπίστημαι καί φρονησεις; cf. Schleusner, Thesaurus in the Sept., under the word, and to the references below add Prov 11:14; Job 37:12 Symm.); (Prov 1:5; Prov 24:6; Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, others).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Guide, Lead1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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