ἘΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΥΝΤΕΣ, ἐπισκοπουντες
EPISKOPOUNTES, episkopountes
Sounds Like: ep-is-ko-POO-n-tes
Translations: looking carefully, overseeing, watching over, inspecting, examining, visiting, those who are looking carefully, while looking carefully
From the root: ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb, Participle
Explanation: This word is a present active participle, meaning 'looking carefully at', 'overseeing', 'inspecting', or 'watching over'. It describes an ongoing action of careful observation or supervision. It can be used to describe someone who is actively engaged in the act of overseeing or examining something.
Inflection: Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Masculine, Plural
Strong’s number: G1983 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 15 — 10:366
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Hebrews — 12:15
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
- ἘΠΕΣΚΩΠΤΟΝ — they were overseeing, they were watching over, they were visiting, they were inspecting, they were caring for
- 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
- 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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