ἐπισχύω
epischýō · G2001 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to persist in, to insist on
To do something with persistence, implying both continuity and strong effort
ExamplesLuke 23:5 But they kept on insisting, saying, “He is stirring up the people, teaching all over Judea, starting from Galilee, as far as this place!”
How it’s used In 1 role
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Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὁthe (definite article) 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
- ἐπιμένω epiménō · G1961 · to remain, to stay, to continue
- ἐπιμένω conveys the idea of persisting or continuing in a position or action, whereas ἐπισχύω adds the element of forceful or insistent continuation. Both express tenacious persistence, but ἐπισχύω emphasizes the intensity or stoutness of the insistence.
Contrasting words 1 word
- ἀνίημι aníēmi · G447 · to loosen, to unfasten, to desert
- ἀνίημι in the sense of relaxing effort or desisting is the opposite of ἐπισχύω's intensified persistence or insistence. Where ἐπισχύω means to press on with force, ἀνίημι means to let up or cease pressing.
In the other Testament 1 word
- חָזַק châzaq · H2388 · to be strong, to prevail, to overcome
- חָזַק in its Hiphil and Piel stems conveys the sense of strengthening, prevailing, or insisting forcefully, which closely parallels ἐπισχύω's sense of insisting stoutly or persisting with force. The Hebrew verb is used in contexts where someone strengthens their position or insists on a course of action.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To persist in, to insist on68.71
- In Luke 23:5, the chief priests and crowds accusing Jesus before Pilate “kept on insisting, saying, ‘He is stirring up the people,'” persisting in their charge.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : (imperfect ἐπίσχυον); 1. transitive, to give additional strength; to make stronger…
1. transitive, to give additional strength; to make stronger (Sir. 29:1; Xenophon, oec. 11, 13).
2. intransitive, to receive greater strength, grow stronger (1 Macc. 6:6; Theophr, Diodorus): ἐπίσχυον λέγοντες, they were the more urgent saying, i. e. they alleged the more vehemently, Lk 23:5.
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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