{"def":{"short":"a temple-servant, i.e., (by implication) a votary","long":["one who sweeps and cleans a temple","one who has charge of a temple, to keep and adorn it, a sacristan","the worshipper of a deity",["word 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"]]},"deriv":"from a form of G3485 and κορέω (to sweep)","pronun":{"ipa":"nɛ.oˈko.ros","ipa_mod":"ne̞.owˈkow.rows","sbl":"neōkoros","dic":"neh-oh-KOH-rose","dic_mod":"nay-oh-KOH-rose"},"see":["G3485"]}