noun · feminine
epanorthōsias
Strong’sG1882
correction, reformation
stem epanorthōsi-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** ἐπ-αν-όρθωσις, -εως, ἡ
(< ἐπανορθόω, to correct, restore; cf. II Mac 2:22) [in LXX: I Es 8:52, I Mac 14:34 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1882 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
setting right, correcting, τᾶς ψυχᾶς Refs 5th c.BC+; revision, νόμων Legal cited in Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐ. ἔχειν to be capable of improvement, opposed to ἀνίατον εἶναι, Refs 4th c.BC+; of circumstances, amendment, Refs 2nd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | epanorthōsias | epanorthōsiais |
| object accusative | epanorthōsian1×ἐπανόρθωσιν | epanorthōsiain |
| direct address vocative | epanorthōsiar | epanorthōsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | epanorthōsiau | epanorthōsiaiu |
| to, for dative | epanorthōsia | epanorthōsiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
epanorthōsia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
epanorthōsian“correction”objectaccusative singular1×
2 Timothy 3:16… ōfelimas pros didaskalian, pros elegmon, pros epanorthōsian, pros paideian tan en dikaiosuna,… useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,