ἐπίσκεψις
numbering, census
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where ἐπίσκεψις appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 56 total occurrences). 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.
- Exodus 30:13 ἐπίσκεψις And this is what they shall give, as many as pass the survey, half a didrachm which is according to the didrachm of the sanctuary: twenty oboli go to the didrachm, but the half of the didrachm is the offering to the Lord.
- Numbers 1:21 ἐπίσκεψις the numbering of them of the tribe of Ruben, was forty-six thousand and four hundred.
- 2 Samuel 24:9 ἐπίσκεψις And Joab gave in the number of the census of the people to the king: and Israel consisted of eight hundred thousand men of might that drew sword; and the men of Juda, five hundred thousand fighting men.
- 1 Chronicles 21:5 ἐπίσκεψις And Joab gave the number of the mustering of the people to David: and all Israel was a million and one hundred thousand men that drew sword: and the sons of Juda were four hundred and seventy thousand men that drew sword.
- Jeremiah 11:23 ἐπίσκεψις and there shall be no remnant left of them; for I will bring evil upon the dwellers in Anathoth, in the year of their visitation.
About this word
About this word
ἐπίσκεψις (epískepsis), “numbering, census,” 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 56 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 →
