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|strgr=from a [[form]] of [[ναός]] and koreo (to [[sweep]]); a [[temple]]-[[servant]], i.e. (by [[implication]]) a [[votary]]: [[worshipper]].
|strgr=from a [[form]] of [[ναός]] and koreo (to [[sweep]]); a [[temple]]-[[servant]], i.e. (by [[implication]]) a [[votary]]: [[worshipper]].
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|txtha=νεωκορου, ὁ, ἡ ([[νεώς]] or [[ναός]], and [[κορέω]] to [[sweep]]; (questioned by [[some]]; a [[hint]] of [[this]] [[derivation]] is [[found]] in [[Philo]] de sacerd. honor. § 6 (cf. [[νεωκορία]], de somniis 2,42), and Hesychius ([[under]] the [[word]]) defines the [[word]] ὁ [[τόν]] ναόν κόσμων. κόρειν [[γάρ]] τό σαίρειν ἔλεγον (cf. [[under]] the [[word]] [[σηκοκόρος]]; so Etym. Magn. 407,27, cf. [[under]] the [[word]] [[νεωκόρος]]); [[yet]] Suidas [[under]] the [[word]] [[κόρη]], p. 2157c. says [[νεωκόρος]] [[οὐχ]] ὁ Σαρών [[τοῦ]] νεωκορου ἀλλ' ὁ ἐπιμελουμενος [[αὐτοῦ]] (cf. [[under]] the words, [[νεωκόρος]], [[σηκοκόρος]]); [[hence]], [[some]] [[connect]] the [[last]] [[half]] [[with]] [[root]] κορ, κολ, cf. Latin curo, colo));<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[properly]], [[one]] [[who]] sweeps and cleans a [[temple]].<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[one]] [[who]] has [[charge]] of a [[temple]], to [[keep]] and [[adorn]] it, a sacristan: [[Xenophon]], an. 5,3, 6; [[Plato]], legg. 6, p. 759a.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> the [[worshipper]] of a [[deity]] (οὕς i. e. the Israelites ὁ Θεός ἑαυτῷ νεωκορους ἦγεν [[through]] the [[wilderness]], Josephus, b. j. 5,9, 4); as appears from coins [[still]] [[extant]], it [[was]] an honorary [[title]] ([[temple]]-[[keeper]] or [[temple]]-[[warden]] (cf. 2above)) of [[certain]] cities, [[especially]] of [[Asia]] Minor, in [[which]] the [[special]] [[worship]] of [[some]] [[deity]] or [[even]] of [[some]] deified [[human]] [[ruler]] had been established (cf. Stephanus, Thesaurus, v., p. 1472 f; (cf. B. D., [[under]] the [[word]] [[worshipper]])); so [[νεωκόρος]] ... τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος, of [[Ephesus]], Lightfoot in Contemp. Rev. for 1878, p. 294 f; Wood, Discoveries at [[Ephesus]] (Lond. 1877), Appendix, passim).
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