- Transliteration: Eparchia

- Phonetic: ep-ar-khee'-ah

- Definition:

1. the office of a governor or prefect

2. the region subject to a prefect

a. a province of the Roman empire, either a larger province, or an appendage to a larger province, as Palestine was to that of Syria

- Origin: "from a compound of G1909" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1909 and G757" class="dictionary-topic-link">G757 (meaning a governor of a district, "eparch")"

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: From a compound of G1909" class="dictionary-topic-link">G1909 and G757" class="dictionary-topic-link">G757 (meaning a governor of a district eparch); a special region of government that is a Roman praefecture: - province.