ἘΠΕΣΚΩΠΤΟΝ, ἐπεσκωπτον
EPESKŌPTON, epeskōpton
Sounds Like: eh-pes-KOP-ton
Translations: they were overseeing, they were watching over, they were visiting, they were inspecting, they were caring for
From the root: ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the third person plural imperfect active indicative form of the verb ἐπισκοπέω (episkopeō). It describes an ongoing or repeated action in the past. It means to oversee, to watch over, to visit, to inspect, or to care for. It implies a supervisory role or a diligent attention to something or someone.
Inflection: Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd Person, Plural
Strong’s number: G1985 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Four — 5:13
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΕΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ἘΠΕΣΚΟΠΕΙ — was overseeing, was inspecting, was visiting, was looking after, was caring for
- ἘΠΕΣΚΟΠΕΙΤΟ — was being watched over, was being overseen, was being visited, was inspecting, was overseeing
- ἘΠΙΣΚΟΠΕΙΝ — to look upon, to inspect, to oversee, to visit, to care for
- ἘΠΙΣΚΟΠΕΙΤΑΙ — is watched over, is visited, is inspected, is overseen, is looked upon, is cared for
- ἘΠΙΣΚΟΠΗΣΕΙ — will visit, will look upon, will oversee, will inspect, will care for
- ἘΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΥΜΕΝΟΣ — being overseen, being looked after, being visited, being inspected, being appointed
- ἘΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΥΝΤΕΣ — looking carefully, overseeing, watching over, inspecting, examining, visiting, those who are looking carefully, while looking carefully
- ἘΠΙΣΚΟΠΩ — to oversee, to inspect, to visit, to look after, to supervise
- ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΕΙΤΑΙ — is overseen, is visited, is inspected, is looked upon, is cared for
- ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΕΩ — oversee, inspect, look upon, visit, care for, look out for
- ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΗΣΑΝΤΕΣ — having looked upon, having overseen, having visited, having inspected, having cared for
- ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΥΝΤΕΣ — overseeing, looking over, inspecting, visiting, caring for, looking after
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