episkeptomai · visit, look after

What it means

episkeptomai (ἐπισκέπτομαι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “visit, look after”.

Visit, go to see and care for; of God, come to help his people; also look for and choose.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To go see someone and care for them.
2. To look for someone for a task.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• visit ×5
• has visited ×2
• concerned himself ×1
• select ×1
• you look after ×1
• you visited ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×2
• Luke×3
• Acts×4
• Hebrews×1
• James×1

• Matthew 25:36

  naked, and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison and you came to me.’

• Matthew 25:43

  I was a stranger and you did not welcome me; naked, and you did not clothe me; sick and in prison, and you did not visit me.’

• Luke 1:68

  “Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and accomplished redemption for his people,

• Luke 1:78

  because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,

• Luke 7:16

  And fear seized all, and they were glorifying God, saying, “A great prophet has been raised up among us!” and, “God has visited his people!”

• Acts 6:3

  So, brothers, select from among you seven men of good testimony, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint over this task;

• Acts 7:23

  And when a period of forty years was being completed for him, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.

• Acts 15:14

  Simeon has described how God first concerned himself to take from among the nations a people for his name.

• Acts 15:36

  And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back now and visit the brothers in every city in which we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”

• Hebrews 2:6

  But someone has testified somewhere, saying: What is a human being that you remember him, or a son of man that you look after him?

• James 1:27

  Religion pure and undefiled before God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.