Epitrepo means “let” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2010 — hanachah (“release”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2010 ἐπιτρέπω (epitrepo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. epitrepo (ep-ee-trep'-o) v. 1. to turn over (transfer), i.e. allow, permit [from G1909 and the base of G5157] It has 26 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include leave, permit, liberty, and over. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
epitrepo (ep-ee-trep'-o) v. 1. to turn over (transfer), i.e. allow, permit [from G1909 and the base of G5157] KJV: give leave (liberty, license), let, permit, suffer Root(s): G1909, G5157
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to permit
Usage: ἐπι-τρέπω [in LXX (usually with seel. ἐπιστρ-): Gen.39:6 (עָזַב), etc. ;] __1. to turn to, commit, entrust. __2. to yield, permit: 1Co.16:7, Heb.6:3; with dative of person(s), Mrk.5:13, Jhn.19:38; id. with inf. (cf. M, Pr., 205), Mat.8:21 19:8, Luk.8:32 9:52, 61 Act.21:39-40 27:3, 1Ti.2:12; with inf., Mrk.10:4. Pass., with dative and inf., Act.26:1 28:16, 1Co.14:34.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render epitrepo, 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 New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, 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 G2010 (ἐπιτρέπω) appears 8 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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18 indexed usages in New Testament.
And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
3 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And he committed all that he had into the hands of Joseph; and he knew not of anything that belonged to him, save the bread which he himself ate. And Joseph was handsome in form, and exceedingly beautiful in countenance.
And he permitted it to be so done; and he gave up to the Jews of the city the bodies of the sons of Haman to hang.
And ye have commissioned a man to speak such words.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
I give thee leave also to coin money for thy country with thine own stamp.
who had made a covenant, if he would give him this authority, to pay yearly three thousand six hundred and sixty talents.
And he committed to him the high priesthood and rulership over the nation.
First 26 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2010.
And he committed all that he had into the hands of Joseph; and he knew not of anything that belonged to him, save the bread which he himself ate. And Joseph was handsome in form, and exceedingly beautiful in countenance.
And he permitted it to be so done; and he gave up to the Jews of the city the bodies of the sons of Haman to hang.
And ye have commissioned a man to speak such words.
And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away.
And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them.
And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house.
And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.
And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:
And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.
And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the law.
For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
And this will we do, if God permit.
I give thee leave also to coin money for thy country with thine own stamp.
who had made a covenant, if he would give him this authority, to pay yearly three thousand six hundred and sixty talents.
And he committed to him the high priesthood and rulership over the nation.
Those things which are convenient to our souls, he has directed us to eat; but those which are repugnant to them, he has interdicted.
How that having given them leave to depart, And sent them hastily away, They would repent and pursue them.
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Epitrepo (Strong's G2010) is a Greek word most simply glossed "let". epitrepo (ep-ee-trep'-o) v. 1. to turn over (transfer), i.e. allow, permit [from G1909 and the base of G5157]
This page currently indexes 26 linked usages for Strong's G2010 across 14 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2010 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 leave, permit, liberty, and over. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 3 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2010, with linked reader references where each row is available.