epem

Strong’sG2031

a word, so to speak

stem ep-once in the New Testament0 of 6 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.

ἔπος, -εος (-ους), τό

[in LXX: Za 7:3, Si 44:5 *;]

a word: ὡς ἔ. εἰπεῖν (cl.), so to speak: He 7:9.†

SYN.: λόγος, reasoned speech; ῥῆμα, mere articulated utterance; ἔ., the articulated expression of a thought

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

Strong’s G2031 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidep'-os

a word

Fromfrom G2036;

King JamesX say.

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

ἔπος,
older ϝέπος Refs, etc., εος, τό (Sanskrit vácas 'word', 'hymn', compare εἶπον):
I word, παύρῳ ἔπει in short utterance, Refs 5th c.BC+: generally, that which is uttered in words, speech, tale, ἔπος ἐρέειν Refs 8th c.BC+; joined with μῦθος, Refs 8th c.BC+ —Special uses,
I.1 song or lay accompanied by music, Refs
I.2 pledged word, promise, Refs 8th c.BC+; τελέσαι ἔπος fulfil, keep one's word,Refs 4th c.BC+
I.3 word in season, counsel, Refs 8th c.BC+
I.4 word of a deity, oracle, Refs 8th c.BC+
I.5 saying, proverb, τὸ παλαιὸν ἔπος Refs 5th c.BC+
I.6 word, opposed to deed, ἔπε᾽ ἀκράαντα words of none effect, opposed to ἔτυμα, Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to ἔργον, Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to βίη, Refs 8th c.BC+
I.7 subject of a speech, message, Refs 5th c.BC+
II later usages,
II.1 joined with ἔργον or πρᾶγμα Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 κατ᾽ ἔπος word by word, κατ᾽ ἔ. βασανιεῖν φησι τὰς τραγῳδίας Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3 πρὸς ἔπος at the first word, Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.3.b word in exchange for word, ἀμείβεσθαι, ἀποκρίνεσθαι, of an oracle, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.3.c οὐδὲν πρὸς ἔ. to no purpose, Refs 5th c.BC+; also, nothing to the purpose, ἐὰν μηδὲν πρὸς ἔ. ἀποκρίνωμαι Refs 5th c.BC+; τί πρὸς ἔπο; Refs 5th c.BC+
II.4 ὡς ἔπος εἰπεῖν almost, practically, qualifying a too absolute expression, especially with πᾶς and οὐδείς (not with metaphors), Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to ὄντως or ἀκριβεῖ λόγῳ, Refs 5th c.BC+; in Trag., ὡς εἰπεῖν ἔ. Refs 5th c.BC+
II.5 ἑνὶ ἔπει in one word, briefly, ἑνὶ ἔπεϊ πάντα συλλαβόντα λέγειν Refs 5th c.BC+
III of single words, especially with reference to etymology or usage, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὀρθότης ἐπῶν,=ὀρθοέπεια (which see), Refs 5th c.BC+
IV in plural, epic poetry, opposed to μέλη (lyric poetry), ἰαμβεῖα, διθύραμβοι, etc., ῥαπτῶν ἐπέων ἀοιδοί Refs 5th c.BC+
IV.b generally, poetry, even lyrics, Refs 7th c.BC+
IV.c lines, verses, especially of spoken lines in the drama, Refs 5th c.BC+: singular, verse, line of poetry, Refs 5th c.BC+; group of verses, Refs 5th c.BC+
IV.d lines of writing, μυρίων ἐπῶν μῆκος Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν ὅλοις ἑπτὰ ἔπεσι παραδραμεῖν, of a historian, Refs 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.

a word1×

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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 or object direct	epem	epeim
of, belonging to genitive	epeu	epeiu
to, for dative	epe	epei

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

epstem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

epe 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

epem1×

Hebrews 7:9“a word”kai hōs epem legara, dia Abraam kai Levios tos …And so to speak, Levi, who collects the tenth, paid the tenth through Abraham.