adjective
euperistatas
Strong’sG2139
easily encircling
stem euperistat-once in the New Testament1 of 26 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.
* εὐ-περί-στατος, -ον
(< εὖ, περιΐστημι),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2139 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidyoo-per-is'-tat-os
well standing around, i.e. (a competitor) thwarting (a racer) in every direction (figuratively, of sin in genitive case)
Fromfrom G2095 and a derivative of a presumed compound of G4012 and G2476;
King Jameswhich doth so easily beset.
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
easily besetting, ἁμαρτία NT; perhaps leading to distress, compare περίστασις; εὐπερίστατον, ={εὔκολον},{εὐχερῆ}, Refs 5th 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.
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 | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | euperistatos | euperistatas | euperistatem | euperistatois | euperistatais | euperistateim |
| object accusative | euperistaton | euperistatan1×εὐπερίστατον | euperistatoin | euperistatain | ||
| direct address vocative | euperistator | euperistatar | euperistatoir | euperistatair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | euperistatou | euperistatau | euperistateu | euperistatoiu | euperistataiu | euperistateiu |
| to, for dative | euperistato | euperistata | euperistate | euperistatoi | euperistatai | euperistatei |
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
euperistat 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
euperistatan“that clings so closely”objectaccusative singular1×
Hebrews 12:1“that clings so closely”… marturoiu, onkon apotitherantois panton kai tan euperistatan hamartan, dia hupomonau trechaneiō ton prokeiorōnton …… cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set …