ἐπιβάτης
rider, passenger
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐπιβάτης appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 2 Kings 7:14 ἐπιβάτης So they took two horsemen; and the king of Israel sent after the king of Syria, saying, Go, and see.
- 2 Kings 9:17 ἐπιβάτης And there went up a watchman upon the tower of Jezrael, and saw the dust made by Ju as he approached; and he said, I see dust. And Joram said, Take a horseman, and send to meet them, and let him say, Peace.
- 2 Kings 9:18 ἐπιβάτης And there went a horseman to meet them, and said, Thus says the king, Peace. And Ju said, What have you to do with peace? turn behind me. And the watchman reported, saying, The messenger came up to them, and has not returned.
- 2 Kings 9:19 ἐπιβάτης And he sent another horseman, and he came to him, and said, Thus says the king, Peace. And Ju said, What have you to do with peace? turn behind me.
- 2 Kings 18:23 ἐπιβάτης And now, I pray you, make and agreement with my lord the king of the Assyrians, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you shall be able on your part to set riders upon them.
- Job 39:18 ἐπιβάτης In her season she will lift herself on high; she will scorn the horse and his rider.
- Ezekiel 27:29 ἐπιβάτης And all the rowers and the mariners shall come down from the ships, and the pilots of the sea shall stand on the land.
About this word
About this word
ἐπιβάτης (epibátēs), “rider, passenger,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 7 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
