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Koine Greek wordlink #145760

← Ἐπισκοποῦντες ↑ → Heb 12 ║ ═

SR GNT Heb 12:15 Ἐπισκοποῦντες (Episkopountes) ‘overseeing lest anyone falling_short’ Strongs=19830 Lemma=episkopeō^*
Word role=verb mood=participle tense=present voice=active case=nominative gender=masculine number=plural
Year=64 AD

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Only use of identical word form Ἐπισκοποῦντες (V-PPA·NMP) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Ἐπισκοποῦντες’ (V-PPA·NMP) is always and only glossed as ‘overseeing’.

^*Note: This is also the only occurrence of the word root (lemma) ‘episkopeō’ in the Greek originals.

Greek words (2) other than Ἐπισκοποῦντες (V-PPA·NMP) with a gloss related to ‘overseeing’

ACTs 1:20 ἐπισκοπήν (episkopaʸn) N-AFS Lemma=episkopē ‘it and the overseeing of him let take another’ SR GNT Acts 1:20 word 21

OET-LV: 20 For/Because it _has _been _written in scroll of _psalms, the the_homestead of _him Let _be _become desolate, and let_ not _be the one dwelling in it, and: let_ another _take The overseeing of _him. (ACT_1:20)

OET-RV: 20 Now it was written in the scroll of songs:
⇔ ‘Let his place become deserted with no one living there,’
§ and
⇔ ‘Let another person take his position.’ (ACT 1:20)

1 TIM 3:1 ἐπισκοπῆς (episkopaʸs) N-GFS Lemma=episkopē ‘saying if anyone to overseeing is aspiring of a good work’ SR GNT 1 Tim 3:1 word 6

OET-LV: 3 The saying is trustworthy: If anyone is _aspiring to _overseeing, he _is _desiring of_a_good work. (TI1_3:1)

OET-RV: 3 This is a trustworthy saying: ‘If anyone is aspiring to be an overseer, then it’s a good task that he’s desiring.’ (TI1 3:1)

Key: N=noun V=verb AFS=accusative,feminine,singular GFS=genitive,feminine,singular