ἐπιγνώμων
arbiter, judge
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐπιγνώμων appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 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.
- Proverbs 12:26 ἐπιγνώμων A just arbitrator shall be his own friend; but mischief shall pursue sinners; and the way of ungodly men shall lead them astray.
- Proverbs 13:10 ἐπιγνώμων A bad man does evil with insolence: but they that are judges of themselves are wise.
- Proverbs 17:27 ἐπιγνώμων He that forbears to utter a hard word is discreet, and a patient man is wise.
- Proverbs 29:7 ἐπιγνώμων A righteous man knows how to judge for the poor: but the ungodly understands not knowledge; and the poor man has not an understanding mind.
About this word
About this word
ἐπιγνώμων (epignṓmōn), “arbiter, judge,” 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 4 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 →
