Overseer

o-ver-se'-er, or -ser': One who overlooks, inspects; in the Old Testament from natsach (2 Chr 2:18; in 2 Chr 34:13 the Revised Version (British and American) changes to "set forward"), and paqadh (Gen 39:4; Gen 39:5; 2 Chr 34:12; 2 Chr 34:17; the Revised Version (British and American) has this word for the King James Version "officers" in Gen 41:34, and for "rulers" in 1 Chr 26:32); in the New Testament once for episkopos, in Acts 20:28, where the Revised Version (British and American) has "bishops" (margin "overseers"; compare 1 Pet 5:2).

See BISHOP.