Original Word: κυβέρνησις, εως, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: kubernésis
Phonetic Spelling: (koo-ber'-nay-sis)
Short Definition: governing, government
Definition: (lit: steering, piloting), governing, government.

2941 kybérnēsis – properly, someone who steers (guides) a ship; (figuratively) the divine calling which empowers someone to lead in affairs relating to the Church. (2941 /kybérnēsis only occurs in 1 Cor 12:28.)

2941 /kybérnēsis ("a helmsman who steers") refers to a pilot (a captain, as in Plato) – a director who guides, administrates, etc. (Abbott-Smith).

STRONGS NT 2941: κυβέρνησις

κυβέρνησις, κυβερνήσεως, ἡ (κυβερνάω (Latingubernare, to govern)), a governing, government: 1 Corinthians 12:28 (others would take it tropically here, and render it wise counsels (R. V. marginal reading); so Hesychius: κυβερνήσεις. προνοητικαι ἐπίστημαι καί φρονησεις; cf. Schleusner, Thesaurus in the Sept., under the word, and to the references below add Proverbs 11:14; Job 37:12 Symm.); (Proverbs 1:5; Proverbs 24:6; Pindar, Plato, Plutarch, others).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

government.

From kubernao (of Latin origin, to steer); pilotage, i.e. (figuratively) directorship (in the church) -- government.

Forms and Transliterations

κυβερνησεις κυβερνήσεις κυβερνήσεσι κυβερνήσεως κυβέρνησιν κυβέρνησις kuberneseis kubernēseis kyberneseis kybernēseis kybernḗseis

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