ἐπισκέπτομαι episkeptomai

Greek word for “to visit/care for” · Strong’s G1980 · used 11 times in 11 verses

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Meaning

ἐπι-σκέπτομαι; (late form of ἐπισκοπέω, which see);

How it is translated

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

• visited 2
• has visited 2
• visit 2
• did you visit 1
• will visit 1
• do select 1
• us look after 1
• care for 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Matthew 25 (2), Luke 1 (2), Acts 15 (2), Luke 7 (1), Acts 6 (1), Acts 7 (1), Hebrews 2 (1), James 1 (1)

Forms

• ἐπεσκέψατο 3
• ἐπεσκέψασθέ 2
• ἐπισκέψεται 1
• ἐπισκέψασθε 1
• ἐπισκέψασθαι 1
• ἐπισκεψώμεθα 1
• ἐπισκέπτῃ 1
• ἐπισκέπτεσθαι 1

Words used with it

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

• γυμνός gumnos “naked” 2
• λαός laos “a people” 3
• περιβάλλω periballō “to clothe” 2
• φυλακή phulakē “prison/watch” 2
• ἀδελφός adelphos “brother” 3
• Ἰσραήλ Israēl “Israel” 2
• λαμβάνω lambanō “to take” 2
• υἱός uhios “son” 2

Key verses

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

• Matthew 25:36 — Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
• Matthew 25:43 — I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
• Luke 1:68 — Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
• Luke 1:78 — Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
• Luke 7:16 — And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people.
• Acts 6:3 — Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
• Acts 7:23 — And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.
• Acts 15:14 — Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.
• Acts 15:36 — And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they…
• Hebrews 2:6 — But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
• James 1:27 — Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the…

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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.