epignōsis · knowledge

What it means

epignōsis (ἐπίγνωσις) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “knowledge”.

Full knowledge of something or of someone, recognition.

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. Deep understanding of something or someone, like God.

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

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Romans×3
• Ephesians×2
• Philippians×1
• Colossians×4
• 1 Timothy×1
• 2 Timothy×2
• Titus×1
• Philemon×1
• Hebrews×1
• 2 Peter×4

• Romans 1:28

  And since they did not see fit to have God in knowledge, God handed them over to an unfit mind, to do the things that are not proper,

• Romans 3:20

  because by works of the law no flesh will be declared righteous before him, for through the law comes knowledge of sin.

• Romans 10:2

  For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

• Ephesians 1:17

  that the God of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,

• Ephesians 4:13

  until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Messiah,

• Philippians 1:9

  And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,

• Colossians 1:9

  For this reason we also, from the day we heard it, have not stopped praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

• Colossians 1:10

  to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please him in every way, bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God,

• Colossians 2:2

  so that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all the riches of the full assurance of understanding, for the knowledge of the mystery of God, the Messiah,

• Colossians 3:10

  and have put on the new man, which is being renewed for knowledge according to the image of the one who created it,

• 1 Timothy 2:4

  who wants all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

• 2 Timothy 2:25

  correcting with gentleness those who oppose him; perhaps God may give them a change of mind leading to the knowledge of the truth,

• 2 Timothy 3:7

  always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

• Titus 1:1

  Paul, a slave of God and an apostle of Jesus the Messiah, according to the faith of God’s chosen ones and the knowledge of the truth that accords with godliness,

• Philemon 1:6

  and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective in the knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the Messiah.

• Hebrews 10:26

  For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

• 2 Peter 1:2

  Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

• 2 Peter 1:3

  Since his divine power has granted us all things that lead to life and godliness, through the knowledge of the one who called us by his own glory and virtue,

• 2 Peter 1:8

  For if these things are yours and are increasing, they make you neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

• 2 Peter 2:20

  For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus the Messiah, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become for them worse than the first.