ἐπιβαίνω
epibaínō · G1910 · Greek · 6 occurrences
Meanings
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to come to, to arrive
To move to or on to, generally with the implication of having arrived
ExamplesActs 20:18 And when they came to him, he said to them, “You yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time,
Acts 25:1 Festus, then, after arriving in the province, went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea three days later.
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to embark, to go onto, to mount
To move up onto some object
ExamplesMatthew 21:5 “SAY TO THE DAUGHTER OF ZION, ‘BEHOLD YOUR KING IS COMING TO YOU, HUMBLE, AND MOUNTED ON A DONKEY, EVEN ON A COLT, THE FOAL OF A DONKEY.’”
Acts 21:2 and having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.
Acts 21:4 After looking up the disciples, we stayed there for seven days; and they kept telling Paul, through the Spirit, not to set foot in Jerusalem.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
6 occurrences in 4 groups
- Not stated in the clause 3
- Not stated: I 1
- Not stated (infinitive) 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 3 groups
- εἰςto+ ἹεροσόλυμαJerusalem 1
- εἰςto+ ἈσίαAsia 1
- ἀπόfrom+ ὅςwho, which, that 1
With adverbsAdverbs
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μήnot 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἡμέραday 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- λέγωto say 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 3 words
- רָכַב râkab · H7392 · to ride, to make (someone) ride
- Greek ἐπιβαίνω emphasizes the act of stepping/mounting upon (ἐπί + βαίνω 'step'), often with arrival or embarkation nuance, while Hebrew רָכַב focuses on riding or being mounted (causatively: causing to ride), with stronger emphasis on the riding action itself rather than the initial mounting moment.
- דָּרַךְ dârak · H1869 · to tread, to set foot (on something), to march
- דָּרַךְ (dârak, H1869) encompasses a broader range of foot-related motion including general walking and treading, while ἐπιβαίνω (epibaínō, G1910) specifically denotes movement onto or upon a surface, emphasizing the mounting/embarking action rather than the walking itself.
- עָלָה ʻâlâh · H5927 · to go up, to rise up, to make rise up
- Hebrew עָלָה (ʻâlâh, H5927) denotes the general action of ascending or going up, which Greek ἐπιβαίνω (epibaínō, G1910) specifies as mounting/embarking upon something, representing a semantic narrowing from the broader Hebrew ascent vocabulary to the Greek term's focus on stepping onto or boarding a surface or vessel.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To come to, to arrive15.83
- This verb describes reaching a destination after travel, used of Paul's reminder to the Ephesian elders that they knew how he had been with them from the first day he set foot in Asia — "from the first day that I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time" (Acts 20:18).
- To embark, to go onto, to mount15.97
- It also describes mounting an animal or boarding a vessel, used of the prophecy fulfilled in Jesus' triumphal entry that the King is coming humble and mounted on a donkey — "BEHOLD YOUR KING IS COMING TO YOU, HUMBLE, AND MOUNTED ON A DONKEY" (Matthew 21:5), and of Paul and his companions going aboard a ship crossing to Phoenicia — "having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail" (Acts 21:2).
Word family 35 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon 2 aorist ἐπέβην; perfect participle ἐπιβεβηκώς; 1. to get upon, mount:;ἐπί τί, Mt 21:5…
1. to get upon, mount:;ἐπί τί, Mt 21:5 (Xenophon, Hell. 3, 4, 1, etc.; Gen 24:61); τῷ πλοίῳ (to embark in), Acts 27:2 (Thucydides 7, 70); εἰς τό πλοῖον, Acts 21:6 R G; used without a case, of going aboard (a ship), Acts 21:2; to go up: εἰς ἱεροσολυμα, Acts 21:4 L T Tr WH (yet others refer this to 2).
2. to set foot in, enter: εἰς with the accusative of place, Acts 20:18; with the dative of place (as also in Greek writings), Acts 25:1.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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