ἘΠΙΖΗΤΗΣΟΝ, ἐπιζητησον
EPIZĒTĒSON, epizētēson
Sounds Like: ep-ee-zay-TAY-son
Translations: seek, search for, desire, require, demand
From the root: ἘΠΙΖΗΤΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to seek after, search for, or earnestly desire something. It implies a diligent and persistent effort to find or obtain what is being sought. It can also mean to demand or require something. It is often used in contexts where someone is looking for a person, an object, or a specific outcome.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Imperative, Second Person, Singular
Strong’s number: G1934 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 10:38
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 11 — 6:255
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Kings — 8:8
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΠΙΖΗΤΕΩ.
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.
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΕΙ — he seeks, he searches for, he desires, he demands, he requires
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΕΙΝ — to seek after, to search for, to demand, to require
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΕΙΣ — seek after, search for, desire, require, demand
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΕΙΤΕ — you seek after, you search for, you demand, you require
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΗΘΕΝΤΑ — sought after, inquired into, searched for, desired, requested
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΗΣΑΝΤΟΣ — of one having sought, of one having searched for, of one having desired, when he had sought, after he had sought
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΗΣΑΤΕ — seek, search for, desire, require, demand
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΗΣΑΤΩ — let him seek after, let him search for, let him desire, let him require
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΗΣΕΙΕ — might seek, would seek, should seek, might search for, would search for, should search for, might desire, would desire, should desire
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΗΣΟΥΣΙΝ — they will seek, they will search for, they will demand, they will require
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΟΥΝΤΑΣ — seeking after, those seeking after, searching for, those searching for, desiring, those desiring
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΟΥΝΤΩΝ — of those seeking, of those searching, of those desiring, of those requiring
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΟΥΣΙ — they seek after, they search for, they desire, they demand
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΟΥΣΙΝ — seek after, search for, desire, crave, require, demand
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΩΝ — seeking after, searching for, desiring, requiring, a seeker, one who seeks
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