Neōkóros — G3511

Definition

masculine noun

a temple-servant, i.e. (by implication) a votary

1. properly, one who sweeps and cleans a temple
2. one who has charge of a temple, to keep and adorn it, a sacristan
3. the worshipper of a deity

Usually translated as

worshipper

Origin

from a form of G3485 and koréō (to sweep)

• naós (G3485)

Occurrences

Neōkóros occurs 1 time in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Acts (1)

• Acts 19:35 — And when the townclerk had appeased the people, he said, Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a (νεωκόρον) worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?