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adverb

epimelōs

Greekἐπιμελῶς (epimelōs)

Strong’sG1960

carefully, diligently

stem epimelō-once in the New Testament

Translated as

carefully

What it means

ἐπιμελῶς

adv.,

[in LXX for רַק, etc.;]

carefully: Lk 15:8.†

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

Strong’s G1960 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidep-ee-mel-oce'

carefully

Fromadverb from a derivative of G1959;

King Jamesdiligently.

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

Every form

This word never changes. It is spelled the same wherever it appears, so there is nothing to learn beyond the word itself.

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

epimelōs

Luke 15:8“carefully”Ē tinas gunaikas drachmain echarōtas deka, ean apolluateia drachman henan, ouchi haptatō luchnon kai saratō tan oikian kai zētatō epimelōs heōs hou heuriskateia?Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one of them does not light a lamp, sweep her house, and search carefully until she finds it?