Sense

1. one who stands near or by, a suppliant
2. one's rear-rank man, the right- or left-hand man, the front-rank man)
3. one who stands or is mounted upon
4. one who is set over, a commander, president, steward, a, master
5. the President
6. an overseer, superintendent
7. the caldron, which stood over

Examples

• καὶ ἐκ τῆς πόλεως ἔλαβον εὐνοῦχον ἕνα, ὃς ἦν ἐπιστάτης τῶν ἀνδρῶν τῶν πολεμιστῶν, καὶ πέντε ἄνδρας τῶν ὁρώντων τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ βασιλέως τοὺς εὑρεθέντας ἐν τῇ πόλει καὶ τὸν γραμματέα τοῦ ἄρχοντος τῆς δυνάμεως τὸν ἐκτάσσοντα τὸν λαὸν τῆς γῆς καὶ ἑξήκοντα ἄνδρας τοῦ λαοῦ τῆς γῆς τοὺς εὑρεθέντας ἐν τῇ πόλει. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 25:19)
• καὶ ἤνεγκαν ἐκεῖ τὰς ἀπαρχὰς καὶ τὰ ἐπιδέκατα ἐν πίστει, καὶ ἐπ αὐτῶν ἐπιστάτης Χωνενίας ὁ Λευίτης, καὶ Σεμεΐ ὁ ἀδελφὸς αὐτοῦ διαδεχόμενος, (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 31:12)
• καὶ εὐνοῦχον ἕνα, ὃς ἦν ἐπιστάτης τῶν ἀνδρῶν τῶν πολεμιστῶν, καὶ ἑπτὰ ἄνδρας ὀνομαστοὺς τοὺς ἐν προσώπῳ τοῦ βασιλέως, τοὺς εὑρεθέντας ἐν τῇ πόλει, καὶ τὸν γραμματέα τῶν δυνάμεων, τὸν γραμματεύοντα τῷ λαῷ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἑξήκοντα ἀνθρώπους ἐκ τοῦ λαοῦ τῆς γῆς, τοὺς εὑρεθέντας ἐν μέσῳ τῆς πόλεως. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 52:22)
• θύματος δ ἐπιστάτης ἱερεύς τ ἐπέσται τοῦδε παῖς Ἀχιλλέως. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode6)
• ᾿πιν ἑστὼς ἐπιστάτης καλεῖται, ὁ δὲ αὖ κατόπιν τούτου πρωτοστάτης, ὁ δ᾿ ἐπὶ τούτῳ ἐπιστάτης, καὶ ἐφεξῆς ὡσαύτως, ὡς τὸν πάντα τοῦ λόχου στίχον ἐκ πρωτοστατῶν καὶ ἐπιστατῶν τετάχθαι παραλλὰξ ἱσταμένων. (Arrian, chapter 6 6:3)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.