Greek verb · G2004
ἐπιτάσσω
epitassoep-ee-tas'-so
to command
10 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: epitássō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2004is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2004
to arrange upon, i.e. order
The King James renders it: charge, command, injoin.
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
epitasso is rendered "to command". It stands 10 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Four of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 1:27All the people were amazed and began to ask one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him!”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
All the people were amazed and began to ask one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him!”
Mark 1:27ἐπιτάσσει
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- He commands3
- he commanded2
- command1
- commanded1
- he would command1
- to order1
- you did command1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐπιτίθημι | epitithemi | to put/lay on | Uses38 |
| ἐπιτιμάω | epitimao | to rebuke | Uses29 |
| ἐπιτρέπω | epitrepo | to permit | Uses18 |
| ἐπιτελέω | epiteleo | to complete | Uses10 |
| ἐπιταγή | epitage | command | Uses6 |
| ἐπιτυγχάνω | epitynchano | to obtain | Uses5 |
| ἐπίτροπος | epitropos | manager | Uses3 |
| ἐπιτιμία | epitimia | punishment | Uses1 |
| ἐπιτροπή | epitrope | commission | Uses1 |
| ἐπιτήδειος | epitedeios | necessary | Uses1 |
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- ἐπέταξεν3
- ἐπιτάσσει3
- ἐπέταξας1
- ἐπιτάξῃ1
- ἐπιτάσσειν1
- ἐπιτάσσω1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular3V-AAI-3S
- verb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singular3V-PAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 2nd person singular1V-AAI-2S
- verb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singular1V-AAS-3S
- verb · present active, indicative · 1st person singular1V-PAI-1S
- verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)1V-PAN
Mark
four uses
All the people were amazed and began to ask one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him!”
- ἐπιτάσσειepitasseiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He commands
So without delay, the king commanded that John’s head be brought in. He sent an executioner, who went and beheaded him in the prison.
- ἐπέταξενepetaxenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: he commanded
Then Jesus directed them to have the people sit in groups on the green grass.
- ἐπέταξενepetaxenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He commanded
When Jesus saw that a crowd had come running, He rebuked the unclean spirit. “You deaf and mute spirit,” He said, “I command you to come out and never enter him again.”
- ἐπιτάσσωepitassoverb · present active, indicative · 1st person singulartagged: command
Luke
four uses
All the people were overcome with amazement and asked one another, “What is this message? With authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out!”
- ἐπιτάσσειepitasseiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He commands
“Where is your faith?” He asked. Frightened and amazed, they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him!”
- ἐπιτάσσειepitasseiverb · present active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He commands
And the demons kept begging Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss.
- ἐπιτάξῃepitaxeverb · aorist active, subjunctive · 3rd person singulartagged: he would command
‘Sir,’ the servant replied, ‘what you ordered has been done, and there is still room.’
- ἐπέταξαςepetaxasverb · aorist active, indicative · 2nd person singulartagged: you did command
Acts
one use
At this, the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth.
- ἐπέταξενepetaxenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: commanded
Philemon
one use
So although in Christ I am bold enough to order you to do what is proper,
- ἐπιτάσσεινepitasseinverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to order
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.