episēmos

Strong’sG1978

notable, conspicuous

stem episēm-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 26 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.

ἐπίσημος, -ον

(< σῆμα, a mark), [in LXX: Ge 30:42 (קָשַׁר), Es 5:4 8:13, I Mac 11:37 14:48, II Mac 15:36, III Mac 6:1 *;]

1. bearing a mark; of money, stamped, coined.

2. Metaph.,

(a) in good sense, notable, illustrious: Ro 16:7;

(b) in bad sense, notorious: Mt 27:16.†

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

Strong’s G1978 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidep-is'-ay-mos

remarkable, i.e. (figuratively) eminent

Fromfrom G1909 and some form of the base of G4591;

King Jamesnotable, of note.

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

ἐπί-σημος,
Doric dialectἐπί-σᾱμος, ον, (σῆμἀ serving to distinguish, τοῖς δ᾽ ὄνομ᾽ ἄνθρωποι κατέθεντ᾽ ἐ. ἑκάστῳ Refs 4th c.BC+
II. having a mark, inscription or device on it, especially of money, stamped, coined, χρυσὸς ἐ., opposed to ἄσημος, Refs 5th c.BC+; so ἀναθήματα οὐκ ἐ. offerings with no inscription on them, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἀσπίδες ἐ., opposed to λεῖαι, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.2. of epileptic patients, bearing the marks of the disease, Refs 5th c.BC+; of cattle, spotted or striped, LXX
II.3. notable, remarkable, μνῆμ᾽ ἐ. a speaking remembrance, Refs 5th c.BC+; εὐνή, λέχος, Refs; τάφος ἐπισημότατος Refs 5th c.BC+; of garments, fine, Refs 5th c.BC+; and of persons, ἐ. σοφίην notable for wisdom, Refs 5th c.BC+: in bad sense, conspicuous, notorious, ἐς τὸν ψόγον Refs 5th c.BC+; δέσμιος ἐ. NT+1st c.AD+
II.4. significant, οὐκ ἐ. Refs 2nd c.AD+
III. adverb -μωςLXX+2nd c.BC+: comparative -ότερονRefs 2nd c.AD+; -οτέρως Refs 2nd c.AD+: superlative -όταταRefs 2nd 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.

notorious1×outstanding1×

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	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	episēmos	episēmas	episēmem	episēmois1×ἐπίσημοι	episēmais	episēmeim
object accusative	episēmon1×ἐπίσημον	episēman		episēmoin	episēmain
direct address vocative	episēmor	episēmar		episēmoir	episēmair
of, belonging to genitive	episēmou	episēmau	episēmeu	episēmoiu	episēmaiu	episēmeiu
to, for dative	episēmo	episēma	episēme	episēmoi	episēmai	episēmei

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

episēmstem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

episēm 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

episēmon“notorious”objectaccusative singular1×

Matthew 27:16echale de tote desmion episēmon legorōnton Iēsun Barabbon.… that time they were holding a notorious prisoner named Barabbas.

episēmois“outstanding”subjectnominative plural1×

Romans 16:7… mu kai sunaichmalōtoin mu, hotinois alō episēmois en toi apostoloi, hois kai pro …… countrymen and fellow prisoners. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were …