ἘΠΙΣΤΗΜΗΣ, ἐπιστημης
EPISTĒMĒS, epistēmēs
Sounds Like: ep-ee-STAY-mays
Translations: of knowledge, of understanding, of skill, of science
From the root: ἘΠΙΣΤΗΜΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to knowledge, understanding, or skill, often implying a systematic or scientific understanding. It can be used to describe the possession of insight or expertise in a particular area. As a genitive form, it typically indicates possession or relationship, such as 'of knowledge' or 'belonging to knowledge'.
Inflection: Singular, Genitive, Feminine
Strong’s number: G1922 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Five — 7:15
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 2:1
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Exodus — 31:3, 35:31
- Job — 28:12, 39:26
- Wisdom — 8:4
- Sirach — 1:25, 36:11, 45:5, 50:27
- Jeremiah — 3:15
- Baruch — 3:20, 3:27, 3:37
- Ezekiel — 28:7
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 1:20
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 13:60
The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions
- Vision 3 — 8:7
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΠΙΣΤΗΜΗ.
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.
- ΤΑΙΣἘΠΙΣΤΗΜΑΙΣ — (to) knowledge, (to) understanding, (to) skill, (to) science
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