ἐπίληπτος
blameworthy, faulty
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐπίληπτος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 3 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.
- 1 Samuel 21:15 ἐπίληπτος Am I in lack of madmen, that you⌃ have brought him in to me to play the madman? He shall not come into the house.
- 1 Samuel 21:16 ἐπίληπτος
- 2 Kings 9:11 ἐπίληπτος And Ju went forth to the servants of his lord, and they said to him, Is all well? Why came this mad fellow in to you? And he said to them, You⌃ know the man, and his communication.
About this word
About this word
ἐπίληπτος (epílēptos), “blameworthy, faulty,” 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 3 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 →
