ἐπιγίνομαι
epigínomai · G1920 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to happen, to occur, to come to be
To happen, with the implication that what happens is different from a previous state
ExamplesActs 28:13 From there we sailed around and arrived at Rhegium, and a day later a south wind came up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli.
How it’s used In 2 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- νότοςsouth 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μετάwith, after+ ἡμέραday 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ἐπέρχομαι epérchomai · G1904 · to come to, to arrive, to attack
- Greek verb meaning 'to come upon' or 'to arrive,' used of events, people, and natural phenomena suddenly arriving or coming upon someone. Closely parallel to ἐπιγίνομαι in the sense of arriving upon, though ἐπιγίνομαι emphasizes the 'springing up' or 'arising' aspect more strongly.
In the other Testament 1 word
- בּוֹא bôwʼ · H935 · to come in, to go, to arrive, to reach
- Hebrew verb for arriving or coming upon, frequently used for the arrival of natural phenomena including wind (e.g., Exod 10:13, Jonah 4:8). This is the standard Hebrew translation equivalent for arrival/coming verbs in Greek.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To happen, to occur, to come to be13.107
- This verb describes a weather event arising during the course of a journey, used of Luke's account of a south wind coming up after Paul's ship arrived at Rhegium — "a day later a south wind came up, and on the second day we came to Puteoli" (Acts 28:13).
Word family 29 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 2 aorist ἐπεγενομην; 1. to become or happen afterward; to be born after. 2. to come to,…
1. to become or happen afterward; to be born after.
2. to come to, arrive: of time, τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ νύξ ἐπεγενετο, Acts 27:27 L (stereotyped edition), T (editions 2, 7); (ἔαρος ἐπιγίγνεται ὤρη, Homer, Iliad 6,148).
3. to arise, spring up, come on: ἐπιγενομένου νότου, a south wind having sprung up, Acts 28:13; (Thucydides 3, 74; 4, 30).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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