ἐπιγινώσκω epiginōskō

Greek word for “to come to know” · Strong’s G1921 · used 44 times in 40 verses

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Meaning

ἐπι-γινώσκω; "directive" of γινώσκω (AR, Eph., 249), as in cl.;

How it is translated

Glosses given for epiginōskō in context, with how often each is used:

• having known 7
• know 5
• having recognized 4
• knew 3
• recognizing 3
• will know 2
• recognized 2
• may know 2
• do recognize 2
• knows 1
• does know 1
• having learned 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Matthew 7 (2), Mark 6 (2), Luke 1 (2), Luke 24 (2), Acts 22 (2), Acts 24 (2), 2 Corinthians 1 (2), Matthew 11 (1), Matthew 14 (1), Matthew 17 (1)

Forms

• ἐπιγνόντες 5
• ἐπέγνωσαν 4
• ἐπιγνοὺς 4
• ἐπιγνῶναι 4
• ἐπιγνώσεσθε 3
• ἐπιγινώσκετε 3
• ἐπιγινώσκει 2
• ἐπιγνοῦσα 2
• ἐπεγίνωσκον 2
• ἐπέγνωτε 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with epiginōskō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• εὐθέως eutheōs “immediately” 4
• ἤ ē “or” 5
• ἀνετάζω anetazō “to question” 2
• ἡμέρα hēmera “day” 5
• δύναμαι dunamai “be able” 4
• κατάγω katagō “to bring down” 2
• διαλογίζομαι dialogizomai “to discuss” 2
• μήτι mēti “surely not” 2
• αἰτία aitia “cause/charge” 2
• χιλίαρχος chiliarchos “military officer” 2
• καθώς kathōs “as/just as” 3
• εἰ ei “if” 4

Key verses

The verses using epiginōskō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 11:27 — All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to…
• Matthew 17:12 — But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer…
• Mark 2:8 — And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
• Acts 4:13 — Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them,…
• Romans 1:32 — Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
• 1 Corinthians 13:12 — For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
• 1 Corinthians 14:37 — If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
• 2 Corinthians 1:14 — As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.
• 2 Corinthians 13:5 — Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
• Colossians 1:6 — Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in…
• 1 Timothy 4:3 — Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
• 2 Peter 2:21 — For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.