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ἐπισκέπτομαι

to look after

G1980 Strong's Greek
episképtomai Transliteration
/ep-ee-skep'-tom-ahee/ Pronunciation
Usage in the GNT 11 appearances

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About this entry

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At its core, επισκεπτομαι (episképtomai) means “to look after.” First canonically at Matthew 25:36, it enters the text early. It appears 11 verses across 5 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Acts (36%), then Luke and Matthew. It shares a root with επι, επαγγελλω and επαγω. Dig into 11-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
look out
Modern gloss
to look after
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's G1980 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 →

11
distinct verses
The word appears in 11 distinct verses.
5 / 27
NT books
The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
Matthew 25:36
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Matthew 25:36.
James 1:27
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in James 1:27.
#978
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 978 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).

View all 11 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the New Testament

  • Gospels 5 · 45%
  • Acts 4 · 36%
  • Pauline Epistles 0 · 0%
  • General Epistles 2 · 18%
  • Revelation 0 · 0%

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 11 distinct verses.

  • Lukan (Luke–Acts) 7 verses · 64%
  • Gospels 5 verses · 45%
  • Hebrews 1 verse · 9%
  • General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 9%

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: Visit 3×, Hath visited 2×, Ye visited 2×
  • American Standard Version: Visit 3×, Ye visited 2×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Visit 2×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Care 1×, Choose 1×, Has visited 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders G1980 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Visit” 3×
  • “Hath visited” 2×
  • “Ye visited” 2×

Plus 4 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 G1980 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Visit” 3×
  • “Ye visited” 2×

Plus 5 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 G1980 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Visit” 2×

Plus 9 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 G1980 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Care” 1×
  • “Choose” 1×
  • “Has visited” 1×
  • “Having equipped ourselves” 1×
  • “He has visited” 1×
  • “Let us visit” 1×
  • “Look upon” 1×
  • “Looked” 1×
  • “Visit” 1×
  • “Will visit” 1×
  • “You cared for” 1×
  • “You did” 1×

Plus other, less common renderings.


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.

  1. to look upon or after, to inspect, examine with the eyes

Word origin

Derived from επι (epí) (G1909) — upon.

Part of speech: Verb TDNT: 11:59,2

Middle voice from G1909 and the base of G4649 ; to inspect that is (by implication) to select ; by extension to go to see relieve : - look out visit.

— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.


Forms in the corpus

The 7 distinct written forms G1980 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form Parsing Example Uses
ἐπεσκέψατο epesképsato Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular Luke 1:68 4
ἐπεσκέψασθέ epesképsasthé Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural Matthew 25:36 2
ἐπισκέπτεσθαι episképtesthai Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Infinitive James 1:27 1
ἐπισκέπτῃ episképtē Verb, Present, Middle or Passive deponent, Indicative, 2nd person, Singular Hebrews 2:6 1
ἐπισκέψασθαι episképsasthai Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Infinitive Acts 7:23 1
ἐπισκέψασθε episképsasthe Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural Acts 6:3 1
ἐπισκεψώμεθα episkepsṓmetha Verb, Aorist, Middle deponent, Subjunctive, 1st person, Plural Acts 15:36 1

Same root — word family

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1980, 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

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Derived from this word

Proper names from this root

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Septuagint usage

The same Greek word επισκεπτομαι appears 143 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 130 verses in 23 books.

143
LXX occurrences
Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
130
verses
Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
23 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 23 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1980) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 130. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1980) 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.

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