ἐπιτροπή
epitropḗ · G2011 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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authority, complete power
The full authority to carry out an assignment or commission
ExamplesActs 26:12 “While so engaged, as I was journeying to Damascus with the authority and commission of the chief priests,
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
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀρχιερεύςchief priest, high priest 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μετάwith, after 2
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
- ἐξουσία exousía · G1849 · authority to rule, right to control, jurisdiction
- Greek noun denoting authority, power, or right to act; overlaps significantly with ἐπιτροπή in the sense of delegated or granted authority, though ἐξουσία has broader application to inherent power as well
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Authority, complete power37.40
- In Acts 26:12, Paul recounts that he was journeying to Damascus “with the authority and commission of the chief priests” — a formal grant of full power to act on their behalf.
Word family 29 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ἐπιτροπῆς, ἡ (ἐπιτρέπω), permission, power, commission: Acts 26:12. (From Thucydides…
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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