epoptos

Strong’sG2030

an eyewitness

stem epopt-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.

** ἐπόπτης, -ου, ὁ

[in LXX (of God): Es 5:1, II Mac 3:39 7:35, III Mac 2:21 *;]

1. an overseer (LXX, ll. c.).

2. a spectator: II Pe 1:16 (of ἐ. as applied to God, v. parallels in Inscr., MM, Exp., xiv; of the use of this term in the mysteries, v. Mayor on II Pe, l.c.; Thayer, s.v.).†

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

Strong’s G2030 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidep-op'-tace

a looker-on

Fromfrom G1909 and a presumed derivative of G3700;

King Jameseye-witness.

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

ἐπόπτ-ης, ου, ὁ,
(ἐπόψομαι) overseer, watcher, especially of a god, Πυθῶνος LXX+5th c.BC+; title of Poseidon, Refs 2nd c.AD+; of the Sun, Refs 1st c.AD+; δαίμονες ἐ. τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐ. γῆς καὶ θαλάσσης, of Pompey, Refs; of Augustus, Refs; ἐ. εἰρήνης, of a police magistrate, Refs 4th c.AD+
2 simply, spectator, πόνων Refs 4th c.BC+
3 inspector, Refs 4th c.AD+
II one admitted to the highest grade of the mysteries, Refs 1st c.AD+; τινος 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.

eyewitnesses1×

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	epoptos	epoptois1×ἐπόπται
object accusative	epopton	epoptoin
direct address vocative	epoptor	epoptoir
of, belonging to genitive	epoptou	epoptoiu
to, for dative	epopto	epoptoi

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

epoptstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

epopto 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.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

epoptois“eyewitnesses”subjectnominative plural1×

2 Peter 1:16… Iēsu Christou dunamian kai parousian, alla epoptois genirantois tau ekeinou megaleiotau.… Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.