noun · feminine
epistasias
Strong’sG1999
pressure; a gathering
stem epistasi-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.
** ἐπί-στασις, -εως, ἡ
(< ἐφίστημι), [in LXX: II Mac 6:3 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1999 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
gathering, riotous meeting, τοῡ ὄχλου NT; αἱ τῶν κρατούντων τῆς χώρας βαρβάρων ἐ. Refs 2nd c.BC+; insurrection, LXX+4th c.BC+: with genitive, rising against, τοῦ Κυρίου Refs
2 collection, κακῶν Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 variant for{ἐπίστασις}, NT
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 | epistasias1×ἐπίστασίς | epistasiais |
| object accusative | epistasian1×ἐπίστασιν | epistasiain |
| direct address vocative | epistasiar | epistasiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | epistasiau | epistasiaiu |
| to, for dative | epistasia | epistasiai |
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
epistasia 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
epistasias“pressure”subjectnominative singular1×
2 Corinthians 11:28chōris teiu parektos tas epistasias mi tas kata hēmeran, tas merimnas …… external trials, I face daily the pressure of my concern for all the …
epistasian“stirring up”objectaccusative singular1×
Acts 24:12“stirring up”… heuriskala min pros tinon dialegorōnton ē epistasian poiarōnton ochlou oute en tai sunagōgai …… did not find me debating with anyone in the temple or riling up a crowd in the synagogues or in …