Greek verb · G1959
ἐπιμελέομαι
epimeleomaiep-ee-mel-eh'-om-ahee
to care
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: epimeléomai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1959is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1959
to care for (physically or otherwise)
The King James renders it: take care of.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
epimeleomai is rendered "to care". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 10:34He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
Luke 10:34ἐπεμελήθη
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's three uses are in Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- do take care1
- took care1
- will he care for1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐπιμένω | epimeno | to remain/keep on | Uses15 |
| ἐπιμελῶς | epimelos | carefully | Uses1 |
| ἐπιμέλεια | epimeleia | care | Uses1 |
| ἐπιμαρτυρέω | epimartyreo | to testify to | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐπεμελήθη1
- ἐπιμελήθητι1
- ἐπιμελήσεται1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist passive form, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-AOI-3S
- verb · aorist passive, command · 2nd person singular1V-APM-2S
- verb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-FDI-3S
Luke
two uses
He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
- ἐπεμελήθηepemeletheverb · aorist passive form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: took care
The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Take care of him,’ he said, ‘and on my return I will repay you for any additional expense.’
- ἐπιμελήθητιepimelethetiverb · aorist passive, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do take care
1 Timothy
one use
For if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he care for the church of God?
- ἐπιμελήσεταιepimelesetaiverb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will he care for
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.