ἘΠΙΜΕΛΗΣ, ἐπιμελης
EPIMELĒS, epimelēs
Sounds Like: ep-ee-meh-LEES
Translations: diligent, careful, attentive, painstaking, assiduous
From the root: ἘΠΙΜΕΛΗΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes someone who is diligent, careful, or attentive. It implies a thorough and painstaking approach to a task or responsibility. It can be used to describe a person who is meticulous in their work or who takes great care in their actions.
Inflection: Masculine, Feminine, or Neuter, Nominative or Accusative, Singular
Strong’s number: G1959 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Against Apion
- Book One — 22:164
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 9 — 11:236
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΠΙΜΕΛΗΣ.
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.
- ἘΠΙΜΕΛΕΣ — careful, diligent, assiduous, a careful, a diligent, an assiduous
- ἘΠΙΜΕΛΕΣΤΕΡΟΝ — more carefully, more diligently, more attentively, more zealously
- ἘΠΙΜΕΛΩΣ — carefully, diligently, assiduously, accurately
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