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Greek verb · G2008

ἐπιτιμάω

epitimaoep-ee-tee-mah'-o

to honour.; to raise in price; to mete out due measure

29 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: epitimáō

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2008is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 5 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 9
    spellings
  • 3
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G2008

to tax upon, i.e. censure or admonish; by implication, forbid

The King James renders it: (straitly) charge, rebuke.

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

epitimao is rendered "to honour.; to raise in price; to mete out due measure". It stands 29 times in the Greek text, across five books.

  • Twelve of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "to honour.".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 8:26“You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm.
  • The Greek text spells it nine different ways.

The first use

“You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm.

Matthew 8:26ἐπετίμησεν

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Twelve of the word's twenty-nine uses are in Luke.

The other 22 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries three meanings: to honour., and to raise in price, and to mete out due measure.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
to honour.Tagged as
  • rebuked7
  • were rebuking3
  • rebuking2
  • to rebuke2
  • having strictly warned1
  • He was rebuking1
  • Would he rebuke1
WhereMatthew 8:26“You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the…
to raise in priceTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below
to mete out due measure__(a) to awardTagged as
  • He rebuked7
  • do rebuke3
  • He warned2
WhereMatthew 8:26“You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the…

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.

ἐπιτίθημιepitithemito put/lay onUses38
ἐπιτρέπωepitrepoto permitUses18
ἐπιτάσσωepitassoto commandUses10
ἐπιτελέωepiteleoto completeUses10
ἐπιταγήepitagecommandUses6
ἐπιτυγχάνωepitynchanoto obtainUses5
ἐπίτροποςepitroposmanagerUses3
ἐπιτιμίαepitimiapunishmentUses1
ἐπιτροπήepitropecommissionUses1
ἐπιτήδειοςepitedeiosnecessaryUses1

The words it stands beside

All 29, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

9 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

  • ἐπετίμησεν14
  • ἐπετίμων3
  • ἐπιτίμησον3
  • ἐπετίμησαν2
  • ἐπιτιμᾶν2
  • ἐπιτιμῶν2
  • ἐπετίμα1
  • ἐπιτιμήσαι1
  • ἐπιτιμήσας1

The grammar of each form

  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular14V-AAI-3S
  • verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singular3V-AAM-2S
  • verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person plural3V-IAI-3P
  • verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural2V-AAI-3P
  • verb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)2V-PAN
  • verb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2V-PAP-NSM
  • verb · aorist active, optative · 3rd person singular1V-AAO-3S
  • verb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1V-AAP-NSM
  • verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singular1V-IAI-3S

Matthew

six uses
  • “You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm.

    Matthew 8:26

    • ἐπετίμησενepetimesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He rebuked
  • warning them not to make Him known.

    Matthew 12:16

    • ἐπετίμησενepetimesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He warned
  • Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him. “Far be it from You, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to You!”

    Matthew 16:22

    • ἐπιτιμᾶνepitimanverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to rebuke
  • Then Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed from that moment.

    Matthew 17:18

    • ἐπετίμησενepetimesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: rebuked
  • Then the little children were brought to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them and pray for them. And the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

    Matthew 19:13

    • ἐπετίμησανepetimesanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: rebuked
  • The crowd admonished them to be silent, but they cried out all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”

    Matthew 20:31

    • ἐπετίμησενepetimesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: rebuked

Mark

nine uses
  • But Jesus rebuked the spirit. “Be silent!” He said. “Come out of him!”

    Mark 1:25

    • ἐπετίμησενepetimesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: rebuked
  • But He warned them sternly not to make Him known.

    Mark 3:12

    • ἐπετίμαepetimaverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He was rebuking
  • Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the sea. “Silence!” He commanded. “Be still!” And the wind died down, and it was perfectly calm.

    Mark 4:39

    • ἐπετίμησενepetimesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He rebuked
  • And Jesus warned them not to tell anyone about Him.

    Mark 8:30

    • ἐπετίμησενepetimesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He warned
  • He spoke this message quite frankly, and Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him.

    Mark 8:32

    • ἐπιτιμᾶνepitimanverb · present active, infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to rebuke
  • But Jesus, turning and looking at His disciples, rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind Me, Satan! For you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.”

    Mark 8:33

    • ἐπετίμησενepetimesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He rebuked
  • 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.”

    Mark 9:25

    • ἐπετίμησενepetimesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He rebuked
  • Now people were bringing the little children to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them, and the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

    Mark 10:13

    • ἐπετίμησανepetimesanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: rebuked
  • Many people admonished him to be silent, but he cried out all the louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

    Mark 10:48

    • ἐπετίμωνepetimonverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were rebuking

Luke

twelve uses
  • But Jesus rebuked the demon. “Be silent!” He said. “Come out of him!” At this, the demon threw the man down before them all and came out without harming him.

    Luke 4:35

    • ἐπετίμησενepetimesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: rebuked
  • and He stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. And she got up at once and began to serve them.

    Luke 4:39

    • ἐπετίμησενepetimesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He rebuked
  • Demons also came out of many people, shouting, “You are the Son of God!” But He rebuked the demons and would not allow them to speak, because they knew He was the Christ.

    Luke 4:41

    • ἐπιτιμῶνepitimonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: rebuking
  • The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” Then Jesus got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters, and they subsided, and all was calm.

    Luke 8:24

    • ἐπετίμησενepetimesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He rebuked
  • Jesus strictly warned them not to tell this to anyone.

    Luke 9:21

    • ἐπιτιμήσαςepitimesasverb · aorist active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: having strictly warned
  • Even while the boy was approaching, the demon slammed him to the ground in a convulsion. But Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the boy, and gave him back to his father.

    Luke 9:42

    • ἐπετίμησενepetimesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: Rebuked
  • But Jesus turned and rebuked them.

    Luke 9:55

    • ἐπετίμησενepetimesenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: He rebuked
  • Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

    Luke 17:3

    • ἐπιτίμησονepitimesonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do rebuke
  • Now people were even bringing their babies to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them. And when the disciples saw this, they rebuked those who brought them.

    Luke 18:15

    • ἐπετίμωνepetimonverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were rebuking
  • Those who led the way admonished him to be silent, but he cried out all the louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

    Luke 18:39

    • ἐπετίμωνepetimonverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: were rebuking
  • But some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples!”

    Luke 19:39

    • ἐπιτίμησονepitimesonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do rebuke
  • But the other one rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same judgment?

    Luke 23:40

    • ἐπιτιμῶνepitimonverb · present active, participle · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: rebuking

2 Timothy

one use
  • Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction.

    2 Timothy 4:2

    • ἐπιτίμησονepitimesonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do rebuke

Jude

one use
  • But even the archangel Michael, when he disputed with the devil over the body of Moses, did not presume to bring a slanderous charge against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

    Jude 1:9

    • ἐπιτιμήσαιepitimesaiverb · aorist active, optative · 3rd person singulartagged: Would he rebuke

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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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