ἘΠΙΣΚΗΨΑΣ, ἐπισκηψας
EPISKĒPSAS, episkēpsas
Sounds Like: ep-is-KAPE-sas
Translations: having charged, having enjoined, having laid upon, having commanded
From the root: ἘΠΙΣΚΗΠΤΩ
Part of Speech: Participle, Verb
Explanation: This word is an aorist active participle derived from the verb 'ἘΠΙΣΚΗΠΤΩ'. It describes an action completed in the past by the subject, indicating that the subject 'having charged' or 'having enjoined' something. It is often used to describe someone giving a command or laying a responsibility upon another.
Inflection: Aorist Active Participle, Masculine, Singular, Nominative
Strong’s number: G1943 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 18 — 4:95
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΠΙΣΚΗΠΤΩ.
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.
- ἘΠΙΣΚΗΨΑΜΕΝΟΣ — having charged, having enjoined, having commanded, having laid upon, having imposed
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