noun · feminine
epieikeias
Strong’sG1932
considerateness, forbearance, fairness
stem epieikei-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
ἐπιείκεια, v.s. ἐπιεικία.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1932 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidep-ee-i'-ki-ah
suitableness, i.e. (by implication) equity, mildness
Fromfrom G1933;
King Jamesclemency, gentleness.
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
reasonableness, Refs 5th c.BC+.
2. equity, opposed to strict law, Refs 5th c.BC+
3. of persons, reasonableness, fairness, NT+5th c.BC+; also, goodness, virtuousness, Refs 5th c.BC+
II. personified, Refs 1st c.AD+
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 | epieikeias | epieikeiais |
| object accusative | epieikeian | epieikeiain |
| direct address vocative | epieikeiar | epieikeiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | epieikeiau1×ἐπιεικείας | epieikeiaiu |
| to, for dative | epieikeia1×ἐπιεικείᾳ | epieikeiai |
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
epieikeia 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.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
epieikeiau“gentleness”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
2 Corinthians 10:1… parakalamō vin dia tau prautau kai epieikeiau tou Christou, hos kata prosōpem men …Now by the mildness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you …
epieikeia“kind”to, fordative singular1×
Acts 24:4“kind”… akouara sin nu suntomōs ta sa epieikeia.… I beg your indulgence to hear us briefly.