ἐπίγνωσις
precise knowledge
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G1922 appears in the Book of 2 Peter — 4 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
2 Peter
- 2 Peter 1:2 ἐπιγνώσει n dat sg fem Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,
- 2 Peter 1:3 ἐπιγνώσεως n gen sg fem seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue;
- 2 Peter 1:8 ἐπίγνωσιν n acc sg fem For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful to the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 2 Peter 2:20 ἐπιγνώσει n dat sg fem For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state has become worse with them than the first.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
επιγνωσις (epígnōsis) is a Greek noun most often rendered “precise knowledge.” It first appears in Romans 1:28. It turns up in 20 verses across 10 books, an uncommon footprint. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1922 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 20
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 20 distinct verses.
- 10 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
- #622
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 622 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 20 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Colossians 4 verses 20%
- 2 Peter 4 verses 20%
- Romans 3 verses 15%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 20 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 15 verses · 75%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 4 verses · 20%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 5%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Knowledge 15×, Acknowledging 3×
- American Standard Version: Knowledge 18×
- Berean Standard Bible: Knowledge 16×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Knowledge 16×, Full awareness 2×, Full knowledge 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1922 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G1922 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1922 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1922 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- precise and correct knowledge
Word origin
Derived from επιγινωσκω (epiginṓskō) (G1921) — to know thoroughly.
From G1921 ; recognition that is (by implication) full discernment acknowledgement : - (ac-) knowledge (-ing -ment).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G1922 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐπίγνωσιν epígnōsin | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 10:2 | 10 |
| ἐπιγνώσει epignṓsei | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 1:28 | 7 |
| ἐπιγνώσεως epignṓseōs | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Ephesians 4:13 | 2 |
| ἐπίγνωσις epígnōsis | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 3:20 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word επιγνωσις appears 5 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 5 verses in 3 books.
- 5
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 5
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Kings 7:2 ἐπίγνωσις
- Proverbs 2:5 ἐπίγνωσις
- Hosea 4:1 ἐπίγνωσις
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1922) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Kings 7:2 ἐπίγνωσις For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length of it was one hundred cubits, and the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits, on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on the pillars.
- Proverbs 2:5 ἐπίγνωσις Then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, And find the knowledge of God.
- Hosea 4:1 ἐπίγνωσις Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; For Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, Nor goodness, Nor knowledge of God in the land.
- Hosea 4:6 ἐπίγνωσις My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, That you may be no priest to me. Because you have your God's law, I will also forget your children.
- Hosea 6:6 ἐπίγνωσις For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1922) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
