νεωκόρος
neōkoros
Masculine noun · From a form of ναός (G3485) and koreo (to sweep)
From a form of G3485 and κορέω koréō (to sweep); a temple-servant, i.e. (by implication) a votary:—worshipper.
Outline
- one who sweeps and cleans a temple
- one who has charge of a temple, to keep and adorn it, a sacristan
- the worshipper of a deity
- 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