ἐπιτιμάω
to rebuke
‘to rebuke’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Aorist-tense verb in the Greek New Testament →
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).
- Imperfect
- Continuous or repeated action in past time (“was writing”).
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs 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”).
- Optative
- Expresses a wish or a remote possibility.
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.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
4 distinct verses where G2008 appears in the Present tense, across 3 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 2 verses
- Luke 4:41 ἐπιτιμῶν pres act ptcp nom sg masc Demons also came out from many, crying out, and saying, "You are the Christ, the Son of God!" Rebuking them, he didn't allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
- Luke 23:40 ἐπιτιμῶν pres act ptcp nom sg masc But the other answered, and rebuking him said, "Don't you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation?
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.
επιτιμαω — transliterated epitimáō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to rebuke.” Its lexical range runs to 4 senses. With 29 verses in 5 books, it is a moderately common word in the Greek New Testament. Its uses concentrate in Luke (41% of all occurrences). It first appears in Matthew 8:26. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2008 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 →
- 29
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 29 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #471
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 471 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 29 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 29 distinct verses.
- Gospels 27 verses · 93%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 12 verses · 41%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 3%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 3%
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: Rebuked 14×, Rebuke 6×, Charged 3×
- American Standard Version: Rebuked 15×, Rebuke 6×, He charged 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Rebuked 13×, Rebuke 6×, Admonished 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Rebuked 10×, Rebuke 6×, He rebuked 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2008 across 29 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
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 G2008 across 29 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 G2008 across 29 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2008 across 30 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 4 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 show honour to, to honour
- to raise the price of
- to adjudge, award, in the sense of merited penalty
- to tax with fault, rate, chide, rebuke, reprove, censure severely
Word origin
Derived from επι (epí) (G1909) — upon.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms G2008 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἐπετίμησεν epetímēsen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 8:26 | 14 |
| ἐπετίμων epetímōn | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Mark 10:13 | 4 |
| ἐπιτίμησον epitímēson | Verb, Aorist, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular | Luke 17:3 | 3 |
| ἐπιτιμᾶν epitimân | Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive | Matthew 16:22 | 2 |
| ἐπιτιμῶν epitimō̂n | Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 4:41 | 2 |
| ἐπετίμα epetíma | Verb, Imperfect, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Mark 3:12 | 1 |
| ἐπετίμησαν epetímēsan | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural | Matthew 19:13 | 1 |
| ἐπιτιμήσαι epitimḗsai | Verb, Aorist, Active, Optative, 3rd person, Singular | Jude 1:9 | 1 |
| ἐπιτιμήσας epitimḗsas | Verb, Aorist, Active, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 9:21 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2008, 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).
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 137 — 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 επιτιμαω appears 8 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 7 verses in 4 books.
- 8
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 7
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 37:10 ἐπιτιμάω
- Ruth 2:16 ἐπιτιμάω
- Psalms 9:6 ἐπιτιμάω
- Zechariah 3:2 ἐπιτιμάω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2008) 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.
- Genesis 37:10 ἐπιτιμάω He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"
- Ruth 2:16 ἐπιτιμάω Also pull out some for her from the bundles, and leave it, and let her glean, and don't rebuke her.
- Psalms 9:6 ἐπιτιμάω The enemy is overtaken by endless ruin. The very memory of the cities which you have overthrown has perished.
- Psalms 67:31 ἐπιτιμάω
- Psalms 105:9 ἐπιτιμάω The covenant which he made with Abraham, His oath to Isaac,
- Psalms 118:21 ἐπιτιμάω I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, And have become my salvation.
- Zechariah 3:2 ἐπιτιμάω Yahweh said to Satan, "Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn't this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?"
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2008) 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.
