ἐπιφέρω
epiphérō · G2018 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to bring upon, to impose upon
To cause someone to experience something, with the implication of imposed authority
ExamplesRomans 3:5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I am speaking from a human viewpoint.)
Jude 1:9 But Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him an abusive judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
How it’s used In 4 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
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated (participle) 1
- Not stated in the clause 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- κρίσιςjudgment 1
- ὀργήwrath, anger 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- θεόςGod 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- τολμάωto dare 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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Semantic domains 1 entry
- To bring upon, to impose upon90.94
- In Romans 3:5, Paul asks rhetorically about “the God who inflicts wrath” on human unrighteousness — the sense of bringing something (here, judgment) to bear upon someone.
Word family 31 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (imperfect ἐπέφερον); 2 aorist infinitive ἐπενεγκεῖν; (present passive ἐπιφέρομαι); 1. to…
1. to bring upon, bring forward: αἰτίαν, of accusers (as in Herodotus 1, 26, and in Attic writings from Thucydides down; Polybius 5, 41, 3; 40, 5, 2; Josephus, Antiquities 2, 6, 7; 4, 8, 23; Herodian, 3, 8, 13 (6 edition, Bekker)), Acts 25:18 (where L T Tr WH ἔφερον); κρίσιν, Jude 1:9.
2. to lay upon, to inflict: τήν ὀργήν, Rom 3:5 (πληγήν, Josephus, Antiquities 2, 14, 2).
3. to bring upon i. e. in addition, to add, increase: θλῖψιν τοῖς δεσμοῖς, Phm 1:16-17Rec., but on this passage see ἐγείρω, 4 c.; (πῦρ ἐπιφέρειν πυρί, Philo, leg. ad Gaium § 18; (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 52, 4, 7)).
4. to put upon, cast upon, impose (φάρμακον, Plato, epistle 8, p. 354 b.): τί ἐπί τινα, in passive, Acts 19:12, where L T Tr WH ἀποφέρεσθαι, which see
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
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