eperōtēmem

Strong’sG1906

inquiry, request, appeal

stem eperōtēm-once in the New Testament1 of 6 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-ερώτημα, -τος, τό

[in LXX: Da TH 4:14 (שְׁאֵלָא), Si 36(33):3 *;]

1. a question, an inquiry (Hdt., Thuc.).

2. a demand: I Pe 3:21 (v. ICC, in l).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1906 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidep-er-o'-tay-mah

an inquiry

Fromfrom G1905;

King Jamesanswer.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

ἐπερώτ-ημα,
Ionic dialect ἐπειρ-, ατος, τό, question, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 answer to inquiry put to higher authority: hence, sanction, Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 = Latin stipulatio, PCair. Preis.1.16 Refs 2nd c.AD+: hence probably, pledge, Refs.

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.

appeal1×

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 or object direct	eperōtēmem1×ἐπερώτημα	eperōtēmeim
of, belonging to genitive	eperōtēmeu	eperōtēmeiu
to, for dative	eperōtēme	eperōtēmei

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

eperōtēmstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

eperōtēme 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

eperōtēmem“appeal”subject or objectdirect singular1×

1 Peter 3:21“appeal”… sarkau apothesias rupou alla suneidēsiau agathau eperōtēmem eis theon, dia anastasiau Iēsu Christou,… not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God — through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,