Strong G1980ἐπισκέπτομαι
to visit/care for
- Transliteration
- episkeptomai
- Pronunciation
- ep-ee-skep'-tom-ahee;
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
Detailed definition
ἐπι-σκέπτομαι
(late form of ἐπισκοπέω, which see), [in LXX very freq., chiefly for פָּקַד;]
1. to inspect, examine.
2. (a) to visit: with accusative, Act.7:23 15:36 (cf. Jdg.15:1); especially, the sick and afflicted (as in MGr. and sometimes in cl.), Mat.25:36, 43, Jas.1:27 (cf. Sir.7:35);
__(b) in LXX and NT (as פָּקַד in Gen.21:1, Exo.4:31, Psa.8:5, al.), to visit with help, to care for: Luk.1:68, 78 7:16, Act.15:14, Heb.2:6;
__(with) to visit with punishment (Jer.9:25, Psa.89:33, al.; cf. MM, Exp., xiv; Cremer, 863).†
(AS)
(late form of ἐπισκοπέω, which see), [in LXX very freq., chiefly for פָּקַד;]
1. to inspect, examine.
2. (a) to visit: with accusative, Act.7:23 15:36 (cf. Jdg.15:1); especially, the sick and afflicted (as in MGr. and sometimes in cl.), Mat.25:36, 43, Jas.1:27 (cf. Sir.7:35);
__(b) in LXX and NT (as פָּקַד in Gen.21:1, Exo.4:31, Psa.8:5, al.), to visit with help, to care for: Luk.1:68, 78 7:16, Act.15:14, Heb.2:6;
__(with) to visit with punishment (Jer.9:25, Psa.89:33, al.; cf. MM, Exp., xiv; Cremer, 863).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G1980 appears in 11 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- visit9
- look1
- thou1
First verses
- Matthew 25:36Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
- Matthew 25:43I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
- Luke 1:68Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
- Luke 1:78Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
- Luke 7:16And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people.
- Acts 6:3Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
- Acts 7:23And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
- Acts 15:14Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
- Acts 15:36And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do.
- Hebrews 2:6But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
- James 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
ἐπισκέπτ-ομαι,
={ἐπισκοπέω}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 2.1, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 710, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 5.89, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.129c, etc.)]
2. pass in review: hence, number a host, [LXX (LXX.1Ki.15.4.)]
={ἐπισκοπέω}, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 2.1, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 710, 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 5.89, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.129c, etc.)]
2. pass in review: hence, number a host, [LXX (LXX.1Ki.15.4.)]