epibainō · mount, board, arrive

What it means

epibainō (ἐπιβαίνω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “mount, board, arrive”.

Mount, get up on an animal; board a ship; set foot in, arrive.

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. Ride on an animal; get into a ship; reach a place, tread on it.

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

How it is translated

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

• set foot ×2
• embarking ×1
• having arrived ×1
• mounted ×1
• we went aboard ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Acts×5

• Matthew 21:5

  “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Look, your king is coming to you, gentle and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’”

• 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 21:2

  And having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.

• Acts 21:4

  And having found the disciples, we stayed there seven days. They kept telling Paul through the Spirit not to set foot in Jerusalem.

• Acts 25:1

  So Festus, having arrived in the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

• Acts 27:2

  And embarking on a ship of Adramyttium that was about to sail to the places along the coast of Asia, we put out to sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, being with us.