Greek verb · G1980
ἐπισκέπτομαι
episkeptomaiep-ee-skep'-tom-ahee
to inspect, examine.; (a) to visit
11 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: episképtomai
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1980is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 27New Testament books
- 8spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1980
to inspect, i.e. (by implication) to select; by extension, to go to see, relieve
The King James renders it: look out, visit.
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
episkeptomai is rendered "to inspect, examine.; (a) to visit". It stands 11 times in the Greek text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to inspect, examine.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 25:36I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’
Matthew 25:36ἐπεσκέψασθέ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: to inspect, examine., and (a) to visit.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to inspect, examine. | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 25:36I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me… |
| (a) to visit | Tagged as
| WhereGenesis 21:1Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐπιστρέφω | epistrepho | to turn | Uses36 |
| ἐπιστολή | epistole | epistle | Uses24 |
| ἐπίσταμαι | epistamai | to know/understand | Uses14 |
| ἐπισυνάγω | episynago | to gather | Uses8 |
| ἐπιστάτης | epistates | master | Uses7 |
| ἐπισκιάζω | episkiazo | to overshadow | Uses5 |
| ἐπίσκοπος | episkopos | overseer | Uses5 |
| ἐπισκοπή | episkope | oversight | Uses4 |
| ἐπιστηρίζω | episterizo | to strengthen | Uses4 |
| ἐπιστέλλω | epistello | to write to | Uses3 |
| ἐπίσημος | episemos | notable | Uses2 |
| ἐπισκοπέω | episkopeo | to oversee/care for | Uses2 |
and 12 more on the stem.
All 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 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
- ἐπεσκέψατο3
- ἐπεσκέψασθέ2
- ἐπισκέπτεσθαι1
- ἐπισκέπτῃ1
- ἐπισκέψασθαι1
- ἐπισκέψασθε1
- ἐπισκέψεται1
- ἐπισκεψώμεθα1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singular3V-ADI-3S
- verb · aorist middle, indicative · 2nd person plural2V-AMI-2P
- verb · aorist middle form, command · 2nd person plural1V-ADM-2P
- verb · aorist middle form, infinitive (“to…”)1V-ADN
- verb · aorist middle form, subjunctive · 1st person plural1V-ADS-1P
- verb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-FDI-3S
- verb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 2nd person singular1V-PNI-2S
- verb · present middle or passive form, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PNN
Matthew
two uses
I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’
- ἐπεσκέψασθέepeskepsastheverb · aorist middle, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: you visited
I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’
- ἐπεσκέψασθέepeskepsastheverb · aorist middle, indicative · 2nd person pluraltagged: did you visit
Luke
three uses
“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people.
- ἐπεσκέψατοepeskepsatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He has visited
because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,
- ἐπισκέψεταιepiskepsetaiverb · future middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: will visit
A sense of awe swept over all of them, and they glorified God. “A great prophet has appeared among us!” they said. “God has visited His people!”
- ἐπεσκέψατοepeskepsatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: Has visited
Acts
four uses
Therefore, brothers, select from among you seven men confirmed to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will appoint this responsibility to them
- ἐπισκέψασθεepiskepsastheverb · aorist middle form, command · 2nd person pluraltagged: do select
When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
- ἐπισκέψασθαιepiskepsasthaiverb · aorist middle form, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to visit
Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.
- ἐπεσκέψατοepeskepsatoverb · aorist middle form, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: visited
Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”
- ἐπισκεψώμεθαepiskepsomethaverb · aorist middle form, subjunctive · 1st person pluraltagged: let us look after
Hebrews
one use
But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
- ἐπισκέπτῃepiskepteverb · present middle or passive form, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: You care for
James
one use
Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
- ἐπισκέπτεσθαιepiskeptesthaiverb · present middle or passive form, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to visit
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.