◄ 2030. epoptés ►
Strong's Lexicon epoptés: Eyewitness, Overseer Original Word: ἐπόπτης Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: epoptés Pronunciation: eh-POP-tace Phonetic Spelling: (ep-op'-tace) Definition: Eyewitness, Overseer Meaning: an eyewitness, spectator, looker-on. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin from epi and the fut. of horaó Definition a looker-on, i.e. a spectator NASB Translation eyewitnesses (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2030: ἐπόπτης ἐπόπτης, ἐπόπτου, ὁ (from unused ἐπόπτω); 1. an overseer, inspector, see ἐπίσκοπος; (Aeschylus, Pindar, others; of God, in 2 Macc. 3:39 2Macc. 7:35; 3Macc. 2:21; Additions to Esther 5:1; ἀνθρωπίνων ἔργων, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 59, 3 [ET]). 2. a spectator, eye-witness of anything: so in 2 Peter 1:16; inasmuch as those were called ἐπόπται by the Greeks who had attained to the third (i. e. the highest) grade of the Eleusinian mysteries (Plutarch, Alcib. 22, and elsewhere), the word seems to be used here to designate those privileged to be present at the heavenly spectacle of the transfiguration of Christ. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance eyewitness. From epi and a presumed derivative of optanomai; a looker-on -- eye-witness. see GREEK epi see GREEK optanomai Forms and Transliterations εποπται επόπται ἐπόπται epoptai epóptai Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's Concordance 2 Peter 1:16 N-NMP GRK: παρουσίαν ἀλλ' ἐπόπται γενηθέντες τῆς NAS: Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. KJV: but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. INT: coming but eyewitnesses having been Strong's Greek 2030 1 Occurrence ἐπόπται — 1 Occ.