epigeios · earthly

What it means

epigeios (ἐπίγειος) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “earthly”.

Of the earth.

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. What belongs to this world and this life, not to heaven.

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

How it is translated

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

• earthly ×6
• earth ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• John×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Philippians×2
• James×1

• John 3:12

  If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

• 1 Corinthians 15:40

  And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies; but the glory of the heavenly is one kind, and that of the earthly is another.

• 2 Corinthians 5:1

  For we know that if our earthly house of the tent is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.

• Philippians 2:10

  so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

• Philippians 3:19

  whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

• James 3:15

  This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but it is earthly, natural, demonic.

And 1 more times.