νεωκόρον

Detailed Definition

• 1one who sweeps and cleans a temple
• 2word appears from coins still extant, it was an honorary title [temple-keeper or temple-warden] of certain cities, especially in asia minor, or in which some special worship of some deity or even some deified human ruler had been established; used of ephesus
• 3one who has charge of a temple, to keep and adorn it, a sacristan
• 4the worshipper of a deity