The meaning of “ἐπισκέπτομαι”
Understanding episképtomai reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
middle voice from ἐπί and the base of σκοπός look out, visit. - to inspect, i.e. (by implication) to select - by extensi...
ἐπισκέπτομαι
middle voice from ἐπί and the base of σκοπός look out, visit. - to inspect, i.e. (by implication) to select - by extension, to go to see, relieve
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| Matthew 25:43 | “I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.” Word: ἐπισκέπτομαι (episképtomai) | |
| Luke 1:78 | “Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,” Word: ἐπισκέπτομαι (episképtomai) | |
| Acts 15:14 | “Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.” Word: ἐπισκέπτομαι (episképtomai) | |
| Hebrews 2:6 | “But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?” Word: ἐπισκέπτομαι (episképtomai) | |
| James 1:27 | “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. ” Word: ἐπισκέπτομαι (episképtomai) |