ἘΠΙΖΗΤΕΙ, ἐπιζητει
EPIZĒTEI, epizētei
Sounds Like: eh-pee-zay-TEH-ee
Translations: he seeks, he searches for, he desires, he demands, he requires
From the root: ἘΠΙΖΗΤΕΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb formed from the preposition ἘΠΙ (epi), meaning 'upon' or 'in addition to,' and the verb ΖΗΤΕΩ (zēteō), meaning 'to seek' or 'to search.' Therefore, ἘΠΙΖΗΤΕΩ means to seek or search for something with intensity, to desire something strongly, or to demand/require something. It implies a focused or persistent search.
Inflection: Third person, Singular, Present, Indicative, Active
Strong’s number: G1934 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 11:22
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 107:1
Mathetes
- Letter to Diognetus — 11:2
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Samuel — 20:1
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΠΙΖΗΤΕΩ.
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.
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΕΙΝ — to seek after, to search for, to demand, to require
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΕΙΣ — seek after, search for, desire, require, demand
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΕΙΤΕ — you seek after, you search for, you demand, you require
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΗΘΕΝΤΑ — sought after, inquired into, searched for, desired, requested
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΗΣΑΝΤΟΣ — of one having sought, of one having searched for, of one having desired, when he had sought, after he had sought
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΗΣΑΤΕ — seek, search for, desire, require, demand
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΗΣΑΤΩ — let him seek after, let him search for, let him desire, let him require
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΗΣΕΙΕ — might seek, would seek, should seek, might search for, would search for, should search for, might desire, would desire, should desire
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΗΣΟΝ — seek, search for, desire, require, demand
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΗΣΟΥΣΙΝ — they will seek, they will search for, they will demand, they will require
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΟΥΝΤΑΣ — seeking after, those seeking after, searching for, those searching for, desiring, those desiring
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΟΥΝΤΩΝ — of those seeking, of those searching, of those desiring, of those requiring
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΟΥΣΙ — they seek after, they search for, they desire, they demand
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΟΥΣΙΝ — seek after, search for, desire, crave, require, demand
- ἘΠΙΖΗΤΩΝ — seeking after, searching for, desiring, requiring, a seeker, one who seeks
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