Greek verb · G1983
ἐπισκοπέω
episkopeoep-ee-skop-eh'-o
to look upon, observe, examine; As ἐπισκέπτομαι in LXX, NT, to visit, care for
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: episkopéō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G1983is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G1983
to oversee; by implication, to beware
The King James renders it: look diligently, take the oversight.
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
episkopeo is rendered "to look upon, observe, examine; As ἐπισκέπτομαι in LXX, NT, to visit, care for". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Hebrews, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to look upon, observe, examine".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Hebrews 12:15See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
The first use
See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
Hebrews 12:15ἐπισκοποῦντες
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: to look upon, observe, examine, and As ἐπισκέπτομαι in LXX, NT, to visit, care for.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| to look upon, observe, examinebefore μή | Tagged as
| WhereHebrews 12:16See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau… |
| As ἐπισκέπτομαι in LXX, NT, to visit, care for1Pe.5:2 (R, txt.; WH cm.; Cremer, 527).† (AS) | Tagged as
| Where1 Peter 5:2Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion… |
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 |
| ἐπισκέπτομαι | episkeptomai | to visit/care for | Uses11 |
| 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 |
and 12 more on the stem.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling 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
- ἐπισκοποῦντες2
The grammar of each form
- verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine plural2V-PAP-NPM
Hebrews
one use
See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
- ἐπισκοποῦντεςepiskopountesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: observing
1 Peter
one use
Be shepherds of God’s flock that is among you, watching over them not out of compulsion, but because it is God’s will; not out of greed, but out of eagerness;
- ἐπισκοποῦντεςepiskopountesverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine pluraltagged: exercising oversight
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.