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Strong's G1984 ἐπισκοπή (episkope)

Episkope means “bishoprick” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1984 — halal (“celebrate”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1984
Language Greek
Linked Usages 44
Books 18

Strong's G1984 Quick Answer

Strong's G1984 ἐπισκοπή (episkope) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. episkope (ep-is-kop-ay') n. 1. inspection (for relief) 2. (by implication) superintendence It has 44 linked Bible usages across 18 books. Visible English usage signals include visitation, bishoprick, and office. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
episkope (ep-is-kop-ay') n. 1. inspection (for relief) 2. (by implication) superintendence
Usage
44 linked usages
Books
18 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
visitation, bishoprick, and office

Meaning and Definition

episkope (ep-is-kop-ay') n. 1. inspection (for relief) 2. (by implication) superintendence 3. [from G1980] KJV: the office of a "bishop", bishoprick, visitation Root(s): G1980

Original Word
ἐπισκοπή
Transliteration
episkope
Derivation
Root: ἐπισκέπτομαι R1: 1980
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1984. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

oversight

Usage: ἐπι-σκοπή, -ῆς, ἡ [in LXX chiey for פָּקַד פְּקֻדָּה ;] __1. a visiting, visitation (εἰς ἐ. τοῦ παιδός, Lucian, dial. deor., 20, 6); as in LXX (after Heb.), of God's visitation in mercy, or in judgment (Lev.19:20 Job.10:12, Jer.6:15, Wis.2:20, al.): Luk.19:44, 1Pe.2:12 (see Hort, in l). __2. office, charge, esp. office of an ἐπίσκοιος (which see): Act.1:20 (LXX), 1Ti.3:1 (Cremer, 527 f., 864; DCG, ii, 809b).† (AS)

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How Strong's G1984 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render episkope, 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.

visitation Luke 19:44 bishoprick Acts 1:20 office 1 Timothy 3:1

How Strong's G1984 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New 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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 28 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1984 (ἐπισκοπή) appears 42 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1984 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G1984 in the New Testament

4 indexed usages in New Testament.

Luke 19:44 KJV

And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

Acts 1:20 KJV

For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.

1 Timothy 3:1 KJV

This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

Strong's G1984 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

28 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 50:24 Septuagint / Brenton

And Joseph spoke to his brethren, saying, I die, and God will surely visit you, and will bring you out of this land to the land concerning which God swore to our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Genesis 50:25 Septuagint / Brenton

And Joseph adjured the sons of Israel, saying, At the visitation with which God shall visit you, then ye shall carry up my bones hence with you.

Exodus 3:16 Septuagint / Brenton

Go then and gather the elders of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, The Lord God of our fathers has appeared to me, the God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, saying, I have surely looked upon you, and upon all the things which have happened to you in Egypt.

Strong's G1984 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

12 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 6:5 Septuagint / Brenton

Nevertheless the elders of the Jews obtained favor, because the Lord had visited the captivity;

3 Maccabees 5:42 Septuagint / Brenton

The king, just like another Phalaris, a prey to thoughtlessness, made no account of the changes which his own mind had undergone, issuing in the deliverance of the Jews. He swore a fruitless oath, and determined forthwith to send them to Hades, crushed by the knees and feet of the elephants.

Wisdom of Solomon 2:20 Septuagint / Brenton

Let us condemn him with a shameful death: For by his own saying he shall be respected.

Usage Excerpts

First 44 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1984.

Genesis 50:24 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joseph spoke to his brethren, saying, I die, and God will surely visit you, and will bring you out of this land to the land concerning which God swore to our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Genesis 50:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Joseph adjured the sons of Israel, saying, At the visitation with which God shall visit you, then ye shall carry up my bones hence with you.
Exodus 3:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Go then and gather the elders of the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, The Lord God of our fathers has appeared to me, the God of Abraham, and God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, saying, I have surely looked upon you, and upon all the things which have happened to you in Egypt.
Exodus 13:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had solemnly adjured the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones hence with you.
Exodus 30:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If thou take account of the children of Israel in the surveying of them, and they shall give every one a ransom for his soul to the Lord, then there shall not be among them a destruction in the visiting of them.
Leviticus 19:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if anyone lie carnally with a woman, and she should be a home servant kept for a man, and she has not been ransomed, and her freedom has not been given to her, they shall be visited with punishment; but they shall not die, because she was not set at liberty.
Numbers 4:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is overseer—the oil of the light, and the incense of composition, and the daily meat offering and the anointing oil, are his charge; even the oversight of the whole tabernacle, and all things that are in it in the holy place, in all the works.
Numbers 7:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the princes of Israel brought gifts, twelve princes of their fathers’ houses: these were the heads of tribes, these are they that presided over the numbering.
Numbers 14:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness; and all those of you that were reviewed, and those of you that were numbered from twenty years old and upward, all that murmured against me,
Numbers 16:29 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
If these men shall die according to the death of all men, if also their visitation shall be according to the visitation of all men, then the Lord has not sent me.
Numbers 26:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
These are the families of Judah according to their numbering, seventy-six thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 26:47 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
All the families of Shuham according to their numbering, sixty-four thousand and four hundred.
Job 6:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Mercy has rejected me; And the visitation of the Lord has disregarded me.
Job 7:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wilt thou visit him till the morning, And judge him till the time of rest?
Job 10:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou didst bestow upon me life and mercy, And thy oversight has preserved my spirit.
Job 24:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Who have cast forth the poor from the city and their own houses, And the soul of the children has groaned aloud.
Job 29:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As when I steadfastly pursued my ways, When God took care of my house.
Job 31:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
What then shall I do if the Lord should try me? And if also he should at all visit me, can I make an answer?
Job 34:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thou shouldest not say, There shall be no visitation of a man, Whereas there is a visitation on him from the Lord.
Psalms 108:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Let his days be few: And let another take his office of overseer.
Proverbs 36:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Isaiah 10:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And what will they do in the day of visitation? for affliction shall come to you from afar: and to whom will ye flee for help? and where will ye leave your glory,
Isaiah 23:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And it shall come to pass after the seventy years, that God will visit Tyre, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state, and she shall be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
Isaiah 24:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they shall gather the multitude thereof into prisons, and they shall shut them into a stronghold: after many generations they shall be visited.
Isaiah 29:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
from the Lord of hosts: for there shall be a visitation with thunder, and earthquake, and a loud noise, a rushing tempest, and devouring flame of fire.
Jeremiah 6:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They were ashamed because they failed; yet they were not ashamed as those who are truly ashamed, and they knew not their own disgrace: therefore shall they utterly fall when they do fall, and in the time of visitation shall they perish, said the Lord.
Jeremiah 10:15 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They are vanity, and the work of errors: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
Ezekiel 7:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will turn away my face from them, and they shall defile my charge, and shall go in to them unguardedly, and profane them.
Luke 19:44 New Testament, KJV
And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Acts 1:20 New Testament, KJV
For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.
1 Timothy 3:1 New Testament, KJV
This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
1 Peter 2:12 New Testament, KJV
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
1 Esdras 6:5 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Nevertheless the elders of the Jews obtained favor, because the Lord had visited the captivity;
3 Maccabees 5:42 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
The king, just like another Phalaris, a prey to thoughtlessness, made no account of the changes which his own mind had undergone, issuing in the deliverance of the Jews. He swore a fruitless oath, and determined forthwith to send them to Hades, crushed by the knees and feet of the elephants.
Wisdom of Solomon 2:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Let us condemn him with a shameful death: For by his own saying he shall be respected.
Wisdom of Solomon 3:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And in the time of their visitation they shall shine, And run to and fro like sparks among the stubble.
Wisdom of Solomon 3:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Their offspring is cursed. Wherefore blessed is the barren that is undefiled, Which hath not known the sinful bed: She shall have fruit in the visitation of souls.
Wisdom of Solomon 4:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
This the people saw, and understood not, Neither laid they up this in their minds, That his grace and mercy is with his saints, And that he hath respect unto his chosen.
Wisdom of Solomon 14:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore even upon the idols of the Gentiles shall there be a visitation: Because in the creature of God they are become an abomination, And stumbling blocks to the souls of men, And a snare to the feet of the unwise.
Wisdom of Solomon 19:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And not only so, but peradventure some respect shall be had of those, Because they used strangers not friendly:
Wisdom of Sirach 16:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Behold, the heaven, and the heaven of heavens, The deep, and the earth, and all that therein is, Shall be moved when he shall visit.
Wisdom of Sirach 18:20 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Before judgment examine thyself, And in the day of visitation thou shalt find mercy.
Wisdom of Sirach 23:24 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
She shall be brought out into the congregation, And inquisition shall be made of her children.
Wisdom of Sirach 34:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Gold hath been the ruin of many, And their destruction was present.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1984, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Leviticus 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Luke 1 usage, New Testament
Acts 1 usage, New Testament
1 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
1 Peter 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 6 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G1984 FAQ

What does episkope (ἐπισκοπή) mean?

Episkope (Strong's G1984) is a Greek word most simply glossed "bishoprick". episkope (ep-is-kop-ay') n. 1. inspection (for relief) 2. (by implication) superintendence

How many times is episkope (ἐπισκοπή) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 44 linked usages for Strong's G1984 across 18 books.

Where can I study episkope (ἐπισκοπή) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1984 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate episkope (ἐπισκοπή)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as visitation, bishoprick, and office. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G1984 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 28 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 12 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1984, with linked reader references where each row is available.