epitropas

Strong’sG2011

commission, full power

stem epitrop-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.

** ἐπι-τροπή, -ῆς, ἡ

(< ἐπιτρέπω), [in LXX: II Mac 13:14 *;]

power to decide, authority: Ac 26:12.†

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

Strong’s G2011 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidep-ee-trop-ay'

permission, i.e. (by implication) full power

Fromfrom G2010;

King Jamescommission.

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

ἐπιτροπ-ή, ἡ,
reference, especially to an arbiter in decision of a law-suit, ἠξίουν δίκης ἐπιτροπὴν σφίσι γενέσθαι ἢ ἐς πόλιν τινὰ ἢ ἰδιώτην Refs 5th c.BC+; ἡ ἐ. τούτῳ πρὸς Παρμένοντα γέγονε Refs 4th c.BC+ having declined it, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 generally, power to decide, ἐ. διδόναι τινὶ περί τινος Refs 5th c.BC+; διδόναι τῇ συγκλήτῳ τὴν ἐ. Refs 2nd c.BC+; διδόναι ἑαυτοὺς εἰς ἐ., or τὴν ἐ. διδόναι περὶ σφῶν αὐτῶν, Latin dedere se in fidem, to surrender absolutely, Refs; ἐ. λαβεῖν εἰς τὸ διαλῦσαι to receive full powers to treat, NT+1st c.BC+
II guardianship, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπιτροπῆς κατάστασις, διαδικασία, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἐπιτροπῆς δικάζεσθαι, of an action brought by a ward against a guardian, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 office of a Roman procurator, ἡ τοῦ ἰδίου λόγου ἐ. Refs 2nd c.AD+: generally, stewardship, Refs 4th 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.

commission1×

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	epitropas	epitropais
object accusative	epitropan	epitropain
direct address vocative	epitropar	epitropair
of, belonging to genitive	epitropau1×ἐπιτροπῆς	epitropaiu
to, for dative	epitropa	epitropai

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

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

epitropa 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.

epitropos — ἐπίτροπος, a steward, guardian

Where it appears

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

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

epitropau“commission”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Acts 26:12… eis tan Damaskan meta exousiau kai epitropau tau toiu archierevoiu… to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests.