ἘΦΟΡΑ, ἐφορα
EPHORA, ephora
Sounds Like: eh-fo-RAH
Translations: looks upon, watches over, oversees, observes, sees, regards
From the root: ἘΦΟΡΑΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is a verb meaning to look upon, watch over, or oversee. It implies a careful and attentive observation, often with a sense of care or supervision. It can be used to describe God's watchful eye over humanity or a person's observation of events.
Inflection: Third Person Singular, Imperfect Indicative, Active Voice
Strong’s number: G2183 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 127:2
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΦΟΡΑΩ.
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.
- ἘΠΕΙΔΕΝ — looked upon, observed, regarded, saw
- ἘΠΕΙΔΕΣ — you looked upon, you regarded, you beheld, you considered, you saw
- ἘΠΙΔΩΝ — having looked upon, having seen, having observed, having considered
- ἘΦΕΩΡΑ — was observing, was overseeing, was looking upon, was watching, was inspecting
- ἘΦΙΔΕ — to look upon, to behold, to look at, to observe, to oversee, to consider, to regard, to pay attention to
- ἘΦΙΔΕΙΝ — to look upon, to behold, to see, to observe, to oversee, to regard, to care for
- ἘΦΙΔΩΝ — looking upon, seeing, beholding, watching over, overseeing
- ἘΦΟΡΑΝ — to look upon, to behold, to observe, to oversee, to supervise
- ἘΦΟΡΩΝ — looking at, watching over, overseeing, beholding, observing
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