epistamai · understand

What it means

epistamai (ἐπίσταμαι) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “understand”.

Know.

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 have something clear in the mind from having learned or lived it.

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

How it is translated

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

• know ×6
• knowing ×3
• understand ×2
• I am acquainted with ×1
• knows ×1
• understanding ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Mark×1
• Acts×9
• 1 Timothy×1
• Hebrews×1
• James×1
• Jude×1

• Mark 14:68

  But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you are saying.” And he went outside into the forecourt; and a rooster crowed.

• Acts 10:28

  And he said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner; but to me God showed that I should call no person profane or unclean.

• Acts 15:7

  And when there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that from early days God chose among you that through my mouth the nations should hear the word of the good news and believe.

• Acts 18:25

  He had been instructed in the way of the Lord, and being fervent in spirit, he was speaking and teaching accurately the things concerning Jesus, though knowing only the immersion of John.

• Acts 19:15

  But the evil spirit answered and said to them, “I know Jesus, and I am acquainted with Paul, but who are you?”

• Acts 19:25

  He gathered these together with the workers in similar trades and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our prosperity.

• Acts 20:18

  And when they came to him, he said to them, “You know from the first day on which I set foot in Asia, how I was with you the whole time,

• Acts 22:19

  And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I was imprisoning and beating in synagogue after synagogue those who believe in you.

• Acts 24:10

  And Paul answered, when the governor had motioned to him to speak: “Knowing that for many years you have been judge over this nation, I cheerfully make my defense in the matters concerning myself,

• Acts 26:26

  For the king knows about these things, to whom I also speak boldly; for I am not persuaded that any of these things escapes his notice, for this has not been done in a corner.

• 1 Timothy 6:4

  he is conceited, understanding nothing, but has a morbid craving for speculations and disputes about words, out of which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions,

• Hebrews 11:8

  By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place that he was going to receive as an inheritance; and he went out not knowing where he was going.

• James 4:14

  you who do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

• Jude 1:10

  But these blaspheme all that they do not know, and what they understand by instinct, like irrational animals, by these things they are destroyed.