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Lexicon :: Strong's G1984 - episkopē

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ἐπισκοπή
Transliteration
episkopē (Key)
Pronunciation
ep-is-kop-ay'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 2:606,244

Strong’s Definitions

ἐπισκοπή episkopḗ, ep-is-kop-ay'; from G1980; inspection (for relief); by implication, superintendence; specially, the Christian "episcopate":—the office of a "bishop", bishoprick, visitation.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's G1984 in the following manner: visitation (2x), bishoprick (1x), office of a bishop (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's G1984 in the following manner: visitation (2x), bishoprick (1x), office of a bishop (1x).

  1. investigation, inspection, visitation

    1. that act by which God looks into and searches out the ways, deeds character, of men, in order to adjudge them their lot accordingly, whether joyous or sad

    2. oversight

      1. overseership, office, charge, the office of an elder

      2. the overseer or presiding officers of a Christian church

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐπισκοπή episkopḗ, ep-is-kop-ay'; from G1980; inspection (for relief); by implication, superintendence; specially, the Christian "episcopate":—the office of a "bishop", bishoprick, visitation.
STRONGS G1984:
ἐπισκοπή, ἐπισκοπῆς, ἡ (ἐπισκοπέω), inspection, visitation (German Besichtigung);
a. properly: εἰς ἐπισκοπήν τοῦ παιδός, to visit the boy, Lucian, dial. deor. 20, 6; with this exception no example of the word in secular writings has yet been noted.
b. In biblical Greek, after the Hebrew פְּקֻדָּה, that act by which God looks into and searches out the ways, deeds, character, of men, in order to adjudge them their lot accordingly, whether joyous or sad; inspection, investigation, visitation (Vulg. usuallyvisitatio): so universally, ἐν ἐπισκοπή ψυχῶν, when he shall search the souls of men, i. e. in the time of divine judgment, Wis. 3:13; also ἐν ὥρα ἐπισκοπῆς, Sir. 18:20 (19); so perhaps ἐν ἡμέρα ἐπισκοπῆς, 1 Peter 2:12 (see below); in a good sense, of God's gracious care: τόν καιρόν τῆς ἐπισκοπῆς σου, i. e. τόν καιρόν ἐν ᾧ ἐπεσκέψατο σε ὁ Θεός, in which God showed himself gracious toward thee and offered thee salvation through Christ (see ἐπισκέπτομαι, b.), Luke 19:44; ἐν καιρῷ ἐπισκοπῆς, in the time of divine reward, 1 Peter 5:6 Lachmann; also, in the opinion of many commentators, 1 Peter 2:12 (others, associate this passage with Luke 19:44 above; cf. DeWette (edited by Brückner) or Huther at the passage); from the O. T. cf. Genesis 50:24; Job 34:9; Wis. 2:20 Wis. 3:7, etc. with a bad reference, of divine punishment: Exodus 3:16; Isaiah 10:3; Jeremiah 10:15; Wis. 14:11 Wis. 19:14 (15); (etc.; cf. Sophocles Lexicon, under the word).
c. after the analogy of the Hebrew פְּקֻדָּה (Numbers 4:16; 1 Chronicles 24:19 (here the Sept. ἐπίσκεψις), etc.), oversight i. e. overseership, office, charge; Vulg.episcopatus: Acts 1:20, from Psalm 108:8 (Ps. 109:8); specifically, the office of a bishop (the overseer or presiding officer of a Christian church): 1 Timothy 3:1, and in ecclesiastical writings
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
50:24
Exodus
3:16
Numbers
4:16
1 Chronicles
24:19
Job
34:9
Psalms
108:8; 109:8
Isaiah
10:3
Jeremiah
10:15
Luke
19:44; 19:44
Acts
1:20
1 Timothy
3:1
1 Peter
2:12; 2:12; 5:6

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1984 matches the Greek ἐπισκοπή (episkopē),
which occurs 30 times in 28 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:24 - And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:25 - And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:16 - Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:19 - And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:12 - When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel, according to those that are numbered of them, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto Jehovah, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:20 - And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; they shall be punished; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:16 - And the charge of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the continual meal-offering, and the anointing oil, the charge of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, the sanctuary, and the furniture thereof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:2 - that the princes of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ houses, offered. These were the princes of the tribes, these are they that were over them that were numbered:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 - your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:29 - If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Jehovah hath not sent me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:22 - These are the families of Judah according to those that were numbered of them, threescore and sixteen thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:43 - All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were threescore and four thousand and four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:14 -
To him that is ready to faint kindness should be showed from his friend;
Even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:18 -
And that thou shouldest visit him every morning,
And try him every moment?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:12 -
Thou hast granted me life and lovingkindness;
And thy visitation hath preserved my spirit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:12 -
From out of the populous city men groan,
And the soul of the wounded crieth out:
Yet God regardeth not the folly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:4 -
As I was in the ripeness of my days,
When the friendship of God was upon my tent;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:14 -
What then shall I do when God riseth up?
And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:9 -
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing
That he should delight himself with God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:8 -
Let his days be few;
And let another take his office.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:13 -
The poor man and the oppressor meet together;
Jehovah lighteneth the eyes of them both.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:3 - And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:17 - And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that Jehovah will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall play the harlot with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:22 - And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:6 - She shall be visited of Jehovah of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:15 - Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:15 - They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:22 - My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret place; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.
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