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SR GNT Acts 7:23 ἐπισκέψασθαι (episkepsasthai) ‘the heart of him to visit the brothers of him’ Strongs=19800 Lemma=episkeptomai
Word role=verb mood=infinitive tense=aorist voice=middle
Year=33 AD Event=Stephen_addresses_the_council TimeSeries=Stephen_addresses_the_council Refers to Word #86686 Person=Moses

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Only use of identical word form ἐπισκέψασθαι (V-NAM····) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐπισκέψασθαι’ (V-NAM····) is always and only glossed as ‘to visit’.

Acts 7:23 ‘the heart of him to visit the brothers of him’ SR GNT Acts 7:23 word 14

OET-LV: 23 But when a_ forty _year _time was _being _fulfilled to _him, went _up in the heart of _him to _visit the brothers of _him, the sons of _Israaʸl/(Yisrā^ʼēl). (ACT_7:23)

OET-RV: 23 But when he hit forty, it entered his mind to visit his relatives, the Israelis. (ACT 7:23)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘episkeptomai’ have 9 different glosses: ‘to visit’, ‘to_be visiting’, ‘will_be visiting’, ‘he visited’, ‘we may visit’, ‘you are noticing’, ‘you_all visited’, ‘examine’, ‘visited’.

Greek words (1) other than ἐπισκέψασθαι (V-NAM····) with a gloss related to ‘visit’

ACTs 15:36 ἐπισκεψώμεθα (episkepsōmetha) V-SAM1··P ‘Paulos having turned_back indeed we may visit the brothers in’ SR GNT Acts 15:36 word 14

OET-LV: 36 And after some days, Paulos said to Barnabas, indeed having _turned _back we _may _visit the brothers in every city, in which we _proclaimed the message of _the master, how they _are _having. (ACT_15:36)

OET-RV: 36 After a few days, Paul suggested to Barnabas, “Let’s go back and visit the believers in each city where we proclaimed the master’s message, and see how they’re doing.” (ACT 15:36)

Key: V=verb