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Koine Greek wordlink #137365

SR GNT 1 Tim 3:1 ἐπισκοπῆς (episkopaʸs) ‘saying if anyone to overseeing is aspiring of a good work’ Strongs=19840 Lemma=episkopē
Word role=noun case=genitive gender=feminine number=singular
Year=65 AD

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Other uses (2) of identical word form ἐπισκοπῆς (N-GFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘ἐπισκοπῆς’ (N-GFS) has 3 different glosses: ‘of visitation’, ‘to overseeing’, ‘visitation’.

Luke 19:44 ‘the season of the visitation of you’ SR GNT Luke 19:44 word 30

OET-LV: 44 and they _will _be _leveling you and the children of _you with you, and they_˓will˒_ not _be _leaving a_stone on a_stone with you, instead _of which you_ not _knew the season of _the visitation of _you. (LUK_19:44)

OET-RV: 44 Then they’ll level you and your children along with you, and they’ll topple the stone walls and buildings, because you didn’t realise the importance of who was visiting you.” (LUK 19:44)

1 Pet 2:12 ‘god in the day of visitation’ SR GNT 1 Pet 2:12 word 35

OET-LV: 12 having the good conduct of _you _all among the pagans, in _order _that at which they _are _slandering against _you _all as of _evildoers, by observing your good works, they _may _glorify the god in the_day of _visitation. (PE1_2:12)

OET-RV: 12 Even as you all live among atheists, maintain your good conduct so that when they slander you by calling you ‘evil’, at the time of God’s judgement they’ll have to honour god when they see your good behaviour. (PE1 2:12)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘episkopē’ have 4 different glosses: ‘of visitation’, ‘to overseeing’, ‘overseeing’, ‘visitation’.

Greek words (2) other than ἐπισκοπῆς (N-GFS) with a gloss related to ‘overseeing’

ACTs 1:20 ἐπισκοπήν (episkopaʸn) N-AFS ‘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)

HEB 12:15 Ἐπισκοποῦντες (Episkopountes) V-PPA·NMP Lemma=episkopeō ‘overseeing lest anyone falling_short’ SR GNT Heb 12:15 word 1

OET-LV: 15 Overseeing lest anyone falling _short from the grace of_ the _god, lest any root of _bitterness upward sprouting may _be _troubling, and by it may _be _defiled the many, (HEB_12:15)

OET-RV: 15 Watch carefully to make sure that no one misses out on God’s grace, and to make sure that no bitterness grows up among you that could mess up many people’s lives, (HEB 12:15)

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