ἐπισύστασις
episýstasis · G1999 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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pressure, concern, burden
A state of prolonged concern and anxiety
Examples2 Corinthians 11:28 Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches.
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revolt, insurrection, rebellion
Rising up in open defiance of authority, with the presumed intention to overthrow it or to act in complete opposition to its demands
ExamplesActs 24:12 “And neither in the temple did they find me carrying on a discussion with anyone or causing a riot, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city itself.
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responsibility for, concern for, care of
Responsibility for oversight based upon authority
Examples2 Corinthians 11:28 Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὄχλοςcrowd, multitude, common people 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ποιέωto do, to make 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- 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
- συστροφή systrophḗ · G4963 · uproar, revolt, plot
- Greek noun denoting a disorderly gathering or conspiracy, overlapping with ἐπισύστασις in the sense of a conspiratorial or riotous assembly
In the other Testament 1 word
- קֶשֶׁר qesher · H7195 · conspiracy, plot
- Hebrew noun denoting a conspiracy or plot, the standard translation equivalent for ἐπισύστασις in contexts where it refers to a conspiratorial gathering or insurrection
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Pressure, concern, burden25.239
- In 2 Corinthians 11:28, alongside his sufferings Paul names “the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches” — an ongoing burden weighing on him.
- Responsibility for, concern for, care of35.42
- That same pressure in 2 Corinthians 11:28 is explicitly named as “concern for all the churches” — Paul's felt responsibility and care for their welfare, not merely an external burden.
- To rebel against, to revolt, to engage in insurrection, rebellion39.34
- In Acts 24:12, Paul defends himself by insisting that his accusers “did not find me carrying on a discussion with anyone or causing a riot,” denying any stirring up of rebellion or insurrection.
Word family 58 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐπισυστασεως, ἡ (ἐπισυνισταμαι to collect together, conspire against) a gathering…
1. a hostile banding together or concourse: ποιεῖν ἐπισύστασιν, to excite a riotous gathering of the people, make a mob, Acts 24:12 R G; 1 Esdr. 5:70 Alex.; Sextus Empiricus, adv. eth., p. 127 (p. 571, 20 edition, Bekker; cf. Philo in Flac. § 1); τίνος, against one, Num 26:9; a conspiracy, Josephus, contra Apion 1, 20.
2. a troublesome throng of persons seeking help, counsel, comfort: τίνος, thronging to one, 2 Cor 11:28 R G (see ἐπίστασις); Luther,dassichwerdeangelaufen.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 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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