ἘΠΕΣΚΗΠΤΕ, ἐπεσκηπτε
EPESKĒPTE, epeskēpte
Sounds Like: eh-pes-KEEP-teh
Translations: was enjoining, was commanding, was charging, was imposing, was inflicting
From the root: ΕΠΙΣΚΗΠΤΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is an inflected form of the verb ἐπισκήπτω (episkēptō), meaning to enjoin, command, charge, or impose. It is a compound word formed from the preposition ἐπί (epi), meaning 'upon' or 'to', and the verb σκήπτω (skēptō), meaning 'to lean' or 'to fall upon'. In its imperfect tense, it describes an action that was ongoing or repeated in the past, such as 'he/she/it was enjoining' or 'they were commanding'. It can be used to describe someone giving a command or imposing a task or burden.
Inflection: Third Person, Singular, Imperfect, Active, Indicative
Strong’s number: G1943 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 17 — 6:179
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΠΙΣΚΗΠΤΩ.
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.
- ἘΠΕΣΚΗΨΕ — fell upon, rushed upon, attacked, inflicted, imposed
- ἘΠΙΣΚΗΠΤΩΝ — charging, commanding, enjoining, laying upon, inflicting, bringing upon
- ἘΠΙΣΚΗΨΑΝΤΕΣ — having fallen upon, having rushed upon, having attacked, having assailed
- ἘΠΙΣΚΗΨΕΙ — to charge, to enjoin, to command, to impose, to inflict
- ΕΠΙΣΚΗΠΤΩ — to fall upon, to rush upon, to attack, to inflict, to impose
- ΕΠΙΣΚΗΠΤΩΝ — visiting, overseeing, looking upon, inspecting, to visit, to oversee, to look upon, to inspect
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