Episemos means “notable” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H1978 — halik (“step”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G1978 ἐπίσημος (episemos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. episemos (ep-is'-ay-mos) adj. 1. remarkable 2. (figuratively) eminent It has 8 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include notable and note. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
episemos (ep-is'-ay-mos) adj. 1. remarkable 2. (figuratively) eminent [from G1909 and some form of the base of G4591] KJV: notable, of note Root(s): G1909, G4591
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notable
Usage: ἐπίσημος, -ον (σῆμα, a mark), [in LXX: Gen.30:42 (קָשַׁר), Est.5:4 8:13, 1Ma.11:37 1Mac 14:48, 2Ma.15:36, 3Ma.6:1 * ;] __1. bearing a mark; of money, stamped, coined. __2. Metaphorical, __(a) in good sense, notable, illustrious: Rom.16:7; __(b) in bad sense, notorious: Mat.27:16.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render episemos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G1978 (ἐπίσημος) appears 6 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
But he did not put them in indiscriminately whenever the cattle happened to bring forth, but the unmarked ones were Laban’s, and the marked ones Jacob’s.
And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.
4 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Now therefore see that thou make a copy of these things, and let it be delivered unto Jonathan, and set upon the holy mount in a conspicuous place.
So they commanded that this writing should be put in tables of brass, and that they should be set up within the compass of the sanctuary in a conspicuous place;
And they ordained all with a common decree in no case to let that day pass without solemnity, but to celebrate the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which in the Syrian tongue is called Adar, the day before Mordecai’s day.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1978.
But he did not put them in indiscriminately whenever the cattle happened to bring forth, but the unmarked ones were Laban’s, and the marked ones Jacob’s.
And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.
And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.
Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
Now therefore see that thou make a copy of these things, and let it be delivered unto Jonathan, and set upon the holy mount in a conspicuous place.
So they commanded that this writing should be put in tables of brass, and that they should be set up within the compass of the sanctuary in a conspicuous place;
And they ordained all with a common decree in no case to let that day pass without solemnity, but to celebrate the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which in the Syrian tongue is called Adar, the day before Mordecai’s day.
And Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained to length of days, and whose life had been adorned with virtue, caused the presbyters who were about him to cease to cry out to the holy God, and prayed thus:
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Episemos (Strong's G1978) is a Greek word most simply glossed "notable". episemos (ep-is'-ay-mos) adj. 1. remarkable 2. (figuratively) eminent
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's G1978 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1978 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as notable and note. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 4 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1978, with linked reader references where each row is available.