episkopas

Strong’sG1984

visitation of judgment, oversight

stem episkop-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 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.

† ἐπι-σκοπή, -ῆς, ἡ

[in LXX chiey for פָּקַד פְּקֻדָּה;]

1. a visiting, visitation (εἰς ἐ. τοῦ παιδός, Lucian, dial. deor., 20, 6); as in LXX (after Heb.), of God's visitation in mercy, or in judgment (Le 19:20 Jb 10:12, Je 6:15, Wi 2:20, al.): Lk 19:44, I Pe 2:12 (v. Hort, in l.).

2. office, charge, esp. office of an ἐπίσκοιος (q.v.): Ac 1:20 (LXX), I Ti 3:1 (Cremer, 527 f., 864; DCG, ii, 809 b).†

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

Strong’s G1984 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidep-is-kop-ay'

inspection (for relief); by implication, superintendence; specially, the Christian "episcopate"

Fromfrom G1980;

King Jamesthe office of a "bishop", bishoprick, visitation.

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

ἐπισκοπ-ή, ἡ,
watching over, visitation, of God, LXX+NT
II. office of ἐπίσκοπος, NT: generally, office, LXX
II.2. ={ἐπίσκεψις}LXX

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.

visitation2×office1×overseer1×

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	episkopas	episkopais
object accusative	episkopan1×ἐπισκοπὴν	episkopain
direct address vocative	episkopar	episkopair
of, belonging to genitive	episkopau3×ἐπισκοπῆς	episkopaiu
to, for dative	episkopa	episkopai

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

episkopstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

episkopa 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

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

episkopos — ἐπίσκοπος, overseer, supervisor, ruler episkopamō — ἐπισκοπέω, I exercise oversight, care for

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

4 occurrences, every one of them listed

episkopan“office”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 1:20“office”… tos katoikarōntos en auta, kai; Tan episkopan autou labatar heteros.… be no one to dwell in it,’ and, ‘May another take his position.’

episkopau“visitation”of, belonging togenitive singular3×

Luke 19:44… heiu ouk gnōskasa ton kairon tau episkopau su.… not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”

1 Timothy 3:1Pistos tos logos; ei tinos episkopau oregotō, kaleu ergeu epithumatō.… If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task.

1 Peter 2:12“visitation”… epopteuarōntois doxazaleia ton theon en hēmera episkopau.… they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits …