Strong's Concordance
Original word: ἐπισκοπή
Transliteration: episkopé
Definition (short): visitation
Definition (full): a visiting, an overseeing
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin: from episkeptomai
Definition: a visiting, an overseeing
NASB Translation: office (1), office of overseer (1), visitation (2).
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
From episkeptomai; inspection (for relief); by implication, superintendence; specially, the Christian "episcopate" -- the office of a "bishop", bishoprick, visitation.
see GREEK episkeptomai
References
KJV:
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
NASB:
and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation."
KJV:
For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.
NASB:
"For it is written in the book of Psalms, 'LET HIS HOMESTEAD BE MADE DESOLATE, AND LET NO ONE DWELL IN IT'; and, 'LET ANOTHER MAN TAKE HIS OFFICE.'
KJV:
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
NASB:
It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do.
KJV:
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
NASB:
Keep your behavior excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation.