From 'Vayikra Rabba' !!

[Craig]

The reason I asked is that 'paqid' is the title assumed by a man named Yirmi ben David, a convert to Yemenite Judaism who claims to be the hier of the bishopric of a reconstructed 'original Netzarim' in Ra'anana, Israel. I own a few of his books and know his teachings fairly well. Are you familiar with his work?

I'm familiar with what he has on his website. I am however, as he would call me, a proud worshipper of the "virgin born man-God." I believe in the Peshitta canon, and not just an overpriced mutilated Matthew. I find his beliefs to be more accurately described as Evyoni (Ebionite) than Netzari (Nazarene). I do not think Christianity is Babel, or that Christians are unsaved, etc. In short I wouldn't recommend him or his material to anyone.

The Hebrew term dyqp means 'one charged/commanded/commissioned'. Followed by the preposition lv it means 'one charged >over/concerning something'.

The word used in 1 Timothy 3 in the Peshitta is 04y4q.

I like to understand people's motives for using Hebrew terms.

I just wanted to avoid "Bishop", because of the association that carries of a man required to be celibate within Roman Catholicism, etc. I try to only use Hebrew or Aramaic theological terms, because the Greek ones are never as accurate. For example, it is much easier to grasp the Father, Son, and Ruach as qnome of the same kyana, rather than as hypostases sharing the same homoousious.

Shlama, Craig