ἘΠΙΣΚΟΠΗΝ, ἐπισκοπην
EPISKOPĒN, episkopēn
Sounds Like: ep-is-ko-PAYN
Translations: visitation, a visitation, oversight, supervision, office, a divine visitation, inspection
From the root: ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to an act of visiting, inspecting, or overseeing. It can denote a divine visitation, a period of oversight or supervision, or even an office or position of authority that involves such oversight, like that of a bishop or overseer. It implies a careful and purposeful looking after or attending to something or someone.
Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G1984 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Numbers — 26:18, 26:47
- Deuteronomy — 28:25
- 3 Maccabees — 5:42
- Psalms — 108:8
- Proverbs — 29:13
- Job — 7:18, 24:13, 29:4, 31:14
- Isaiah — 23:16
- Ezekiel — 7:22
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Acts — 1:20
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΗ.
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.
- ἘΠΙΣΚΟΗΣ — (of) oversight, (of) supervision, (of) visitation, (of) office, (of) bishopric
- ἘΠΙΣΚΟΠΗ — visitation, a visitation, oversight, supervision, an oversight, an office, an office of overseer, an inspection, an inspection, a position of authority
- ἘΠΙΣΚΟΠΗΣ — of visitation, of oversight, of superintendence, of a bishopric, of an office of overseer
- ΕΠΙΣΚΟΗ — visitation, a visitation, oversight, supervision, office, an office, position, an inspection, an inspection, a charge, a charge
- ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΗ — visitation, oversight, office, position, superintendence, a visitation
- ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΗΝ — visitation, a visitation, oversight, superintendence, office, an office
- ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΗΣ — (of) oversight, (of) visitation, (of) superintendence, (of) the office of overseer, (of) bishopric
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