ἐπιλανθάνομαι
to forget
‘to forget’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Middle deponent
- Middle in form but active in meaning.
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G1950 appears in the Book of Hebrews — 3 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.
Hebrews
- Hebrews 6:10 ἐπιλαθέσθαι aor mid.dep inf For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
- Hebrews 13:2 ἐπιλανθάνεσθε pres mid/pass.dep impv 2pl Don't forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
- Hebrews 13:16 ἐπιλανθάνεσθε pres mid/pass.dep impv 2pl But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
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.
επιλανθανομαι — transliterated epilanthánomai — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to forget.” Debuting at Matthew 16:5, it then recurs through the corpus. It appears 8 verses across 6 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. More than a third of its appearances fall in Hebrews. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. See the sense tree, 8-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G1950 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,240
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,240 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
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 8 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 38%
- Hebrews 3 verses · 38%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 13%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 13%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 13%
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: Forget 2×
- American Standard Version: Forget 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Neglect 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Forgot 2×, Neglect 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G1950 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 G1950 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G1950 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G1950 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses 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.
- to forget
- neglecting, no longer caring for
- forgotten, given over to oblivion, i.e. uncared for
Word origin
Derived from επι (epí) (G1909) — upon.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G1950 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐπελάθοντο epeláthonto | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 16:5 | 2 |
| ἐπιλανθάνεσθε epilanthánesthe | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural | Hebrews 13:2 | 2 |
| ἐπελάθετο epelátheto | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | James 1:24 | 1 |
| ἐπιλαθέσθαι epilathésthai | Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Infinitive | Hebrews 6:10 | 1 |
| ἐπιλανθανόμενος epilanthanómenos | Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Philippians 3:14 | 1 |
| ἐπιλελησμένον epilelēsménon | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Luke 12:6 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1950, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- επαγγελλω epangéllō G1861 to announce
- επαγω epágō G1863 to bring upon
- επαγωνιζομαι epagōnízomai G1864 to contend
- επαθροιζω epathroízō G1865 to gather together
- επαινεω epainéō G1867 to approve
- επαινος épainos G1868 approval
- επαιρω epaírō G1869 to lift up
- επαισχυνομαι epaischýnomai G1870 to be ashamed
- επαιτεω epaitéō G1871 to ask repeatedly
- επακουω epakoúō G1873 to give ear to
- επακροαομαι epakroáomai G1874 to listen to
- επαν epán G1875 after
- επαναγκες epánankes G1876 necessarily
- επαναγω epanágō G1877 to lead back
- επαναμιμνησκω epanamimnḗskō G1878 to remind
- επαναπαυομαι epanapaúomai G1879 to rest upon
- επανερχομαι epanérchomai G1880 to return
- επανισταμαι epanístamai G1881 to raise up against
- επανορθωσις epanórthōsis G1882 correction
- επανω epánō G1883 above
- επαρκεω eparkéō G1884 to avail
- επαρχια eparchía G1885 office of governor
- επαυλις épaulis G1886 farm
- επαυριον epaúrion G1887 the next day
+110 more words share this root (not shown).
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 138 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word επιλανθανομαι appears 104 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 98 verses in 15 books.
- 104
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 98
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 15 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 15 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 27:45 ἐπιλανθάνω
- Deuteronomy 4:9 ἐπιλανθάνω
- Judges 3:7 ἐπιλανθάνω
- 1 Samuel 12:9 ἐπιλανθάνω
- 2 Kings 17:38 ἐπιλανθάνω
- Job 8:13 ἐπιλανθάνω
- Psalms 9:13 ἐπιλανθάνω
- Proverbs 2:17 ἐπιλανθάνω
- Ecclesiastes 2:16 ἐπιλανθάνω
- Isaiah 23:16 ἐπιλανθάνω
- Jeremiah 2:32 ἐπιλανθάνω
- Lamentations 2:6 ἐπιλανθάνω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1950) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 98. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 27:45 ἐπιλανθάνω until your brother's anger turn away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send, and get you from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"
- Genesis 40:23 ἐπιλανθάνω Yet the chief cupbearer didn't remember Joseph, but forgot him.
- Genesis 41:30 ἐπιλανθάνω There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,
- Genesis 41:51 ἐπιλανθάνω Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, "For," he said, "God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house."
- Deuteronomy 4:9 ἐπιλανθάνω Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children's children;
- Deuteronomy 4:23 ἐπιλανθάνω Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he made with you, and make you an engraved image in the form of anything which Yahweh your God has forbidden you.
- Deuteronomy 4:31 ἐπιλανθάνω for Yahweh your God is a merciful God; he will not fail you, neither destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which he swore to them.
- Deuteronomy 6:12 ἐπιλανθάνω then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Deuteronomy 8:11 ἐπιλανθάνω Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you this day:
- Deuteronomy 8:14 ἐπιλανθάνω then your heart be lifted up, and you forget Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
- Deuteronomy 8:19 ἐπιλανθάνω It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.
- Deuteronomy 9:7 ἐπιλανθάνω Remember, don't forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 24:19 ἐπιλανθάνω When you reap your harvest in your field, and have forgot a sheaf in the field, you shall not go again to get it: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
- Deuteronomy 25:19 ἐπιλανθάνω Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies round about, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky; you shall not forget.
- Deuteronomy 26:13 ἐπιλανθάνω You shall say before Yahweh your God, I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, and to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me: I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them:
- Deuteronomy 31:21 ἐπιλανθάνω It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
- Deuteronomy 32:18 ἐπιλανθάνω Of the Rock that became your father, you are unmindful, Have forgotten God who gave you birth.
- Judges 3:7 ἐπιλανθάνω The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
- 1 Samuel 12:9 ἐπιλανθάνω But they forgot Yahweh their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them.
- 2 Kings 17:38 ἐπιλανθάνω and the covenant that I have made with you you shall not forget; neither shall you fear other gods:
- Job 8:13 ἐπιλανθάνω So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
- Job 9:27 ἐπιλανθάνω If I say, 'I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;'
- Job 11:16 ἐπιλανθάνω For you shall forget your misery; You shall remember it as waters that are passed away,
- Job 19:14 ἐπιλανθάνω My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
- Job 28:4 ἐπιλανθάνω He breaks open a shaft away from where people live. They are forgotten by the foot. They hang far from men, they swing back and forth.
- Job 39:15 ἐπιλανθάνω And forgets that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild animal may trample them.
- Psalms 9:13 ἐπιλανθάνω Have mercy on me, Yahweh. See my affliction by those who hate me, And lift me up from the gates of death;
- Psalms 9:18 ἐπιλανθάνω For the needy shall not always be forgotten, Nor the hope of the poor perish forever.
- Psalms 9:19 ἐπιλανθάνομαι Arise, Yahweh! Don't let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.
- Psalms 9:32 ἐπιλανθάνω
- Psalms 9:33 ἐπιλανθάνω
- Psalms 12:2 ἐπιλανθάνω Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.
- Psalms 30:13 ἐπιλανθάνω
- Psalms 41:10 ἐπιλανθάνω But you, Yahweh, have mercy on me, and raise me up, That I may repay them.
- Psalms 43:18 ἐπιλανθάνω
- Psalms 43:21 ἐπιλανθάνω
- Psalms 43:25 ἐπιλανθάνω
- Psalms 44:11 ἐπιλανθάνω You have made us like sheep for food, And have scattered us among the nations.
- Psalms 49:22 ἐπιλανθάνω
- Psalms 58:12 ἐπιλανθάνω
- Psalms 73:19 ἐπιλανθάνω How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.
- Psalms 73:23 ἐπιλανθάνω Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.
- Psalms 76:10 ἐπιλανθάνω Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
- Psalms 77:7 ἐπιλανθάνω "Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?
- Psalms 77:11 ἐπιλανθάνω I will remember Yah's deeds; For I will remember your wonders of old.
- Psalms 87:13 ἐπιλανθάνω
- Psalms 101:5 ἐπιλανθάνω I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
- Psalms 102:2 ἐπιλανθάνω Don't hide your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn your ear to me. Answer me quickly in the day when I call.
- Psalms 105:13 ἐπιλανθάνω They went about from nation to nation, From one kingdom to another people.
- Psalms 105:21 ἐπιλανθάνω He made him lord of his house, And ruler of all of his possessions;
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1950) 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.
