3511

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3511 νεωκόρος neokoros [neh-o-kor’-os] from a form of 3485Naos temples and koreo (to sweep); n m; AV-worshipper 1; 1

1) 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
3a) 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