noun · feminine
epikourias
Strong’sG1947
help, aid
stem epikouri-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.
** ἐπικουρία, -ας, ἡ
(< ἐπικουρέω to be an ἐπίκουρος, an ally) [in LXX: Wi 13:18 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1947 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Ionic dialect -ιη, ἡ, aid, succour, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐ. ποιεῖσθαί τινι Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀπολογίας towards one's defence, Refs; σκυτίνη 'πικ., ={ὄλισβος}, Refs
II. auxiliary force, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2. position of the ἐπίκουροι (in Plato's Republic), Refs
III. prayer for aid, entreaty, Refs 3rd 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 | epikourias | epikouriais |
| object accusative | epikourian | epikouriain |
| direct address vocative | epikouriar | epikouriair |
| of, belonging to genitive | epikouriau1×ἐπικουρίας | epikouriaiu |
| to, for dative | epikouria | epikouriai |
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
epikouria 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
epikouriau“help”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 26:22epikouriau oun tucharantos tau apo tou theou …But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand …