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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 spoke to his brethren, saying, I die, and God will surely visit you, and will bring you out of this land to the land concerning which God sware to our fathers, Abraam, Isaac, and Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:25

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:25 - And Joseph adjured the sons of Israel, saying, At the visitation with which God shall visit you, then ye shall carry up my bones hence with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:16 - Go then and gather the elders of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, The Lord God of our fathers has appeared to me, the God of Abraam, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, saying, I have surely looked upon you, and upon all the things which have happened to you in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:19

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:12 - If thou take account of the children of Israel in the surveying of them, and they shall give every one a ransom for his soul to the Lord, then there shall not be among them a [fn]destruction in the visiting of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:20 - And if any one lie carnally with a woman, and she should be a home-servant kept for a man, and she has not been ransomed, and her freedom has not been given to her, they shall be visited with punishment; but they shall not die, because she was not set at liberty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:16 - Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is overseer—the oil of the light, and the incense of composition, and the daily meat-offering and the anointing oil, are his charge; even the oversight of the whole tabernacle, and all things that are in it in the holy place, in all the works.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 7:2 - And the princes of Israel brought gifts, twelve princes of their fathers' houses: these were the heads of tribes, these are they that presided over the numbering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:29 - Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all those of you that were reviewed, and those of you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, all that murmured against me,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:29 - If these men shall die according to the death of all men, if also their visitation shall be according to the visitation of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:22 - (LXX 26:18) These are the families of Juda according to their numbering, seventy-six thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:43 - (LXX 26:47) All the families of Samei according to their numbering, sixty-four thousand and [fn]four hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 6:14 - Mercy has rejected me; and the visitation of the Lord has disregarded me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:18 - Wilt thou visit him till the morning, and judge him till the time of rest?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 10:12 - And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy, and thy oversight has preserved my spirit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:12 - Who have cast forth the poor from the city and their own houses, and the soul of the children has groaned aloud.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:4 - As when I steadfastly pursued my ways, when God took care of my house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 31:14 - what then shall I do if the Lord should try me? and if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 34:9 - For thou shouldest not say, There shall be no visitation of a man, whereas there is a visitation on him from the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:8

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 109:8 - (LXX 108:8) Let his days be few: and [fn] let another take his office of overseer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:13

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 29:13 - When the creditor and debtor meet together, the Lord oversees them both.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:3 - And what will they do in the day of visitation? for affliction shall come to you from afar: and 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 seventy years, that God will visit Tyre, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state, and she shall be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:22 - And they shall gather the multitude thereof into prisons, and they shall shut them into a strong hold: after many generations they shall be visited.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:6 - from the Lord of hosts: for there shall be a visitation with thunder, and earthquake, and a loud [fn]noise, a rushing tempest, and devouring flame of fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:15 - They were ashamed because they failed; yet they were not ashamed as those who are truly ashamed, and they knew not their own disgrace: therefore shall they utterly fall when they do fall, and in the time of visitation shall they perish, said the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:15 - They are vain works, wrought in mockery; in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:22 - And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall defile my charge, and shall go in to them unguardedly, and profane them.
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