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ἐπίγνωσις G1922

epígnōsis

ep-ig'-no-sis

from ἐπιγινώσκω; recognition, i.e. (by implication) full discernment, acknowledgement:--(ac-)knowledge(-ing, - ment).

Abbott–Smith

† ἐπί-γνωσις, -εως, ἡ (< ἐπιγινώσκω, q.v.), [in LXX: III Ki 7:14 (B. γν-), Pr 2:5, Ho 4:1, 6 6:7(6) (דַּעַת), Jth 9:14, II Mac 9:11 * ;]
acquaintance, discernment, recognition (Plut., al.): Phl 1:9, Col 3:10; c. gen. rei, Col 1:9 2:2, Phm 6; τ. ἀληθείας, I Ti 2:4, II Ti 2:25 3:7, Tit 1:1, He 10:26; τ. ἁμαρτίας, Ro 3:20; c. gen. pers., of God: Eph 1:17, Col 1:10, II Pe 1:2, 3; of Christ: Eph 4:13, II Pe 1:8 2:20; of God and Christ: II Pe 1:2; κατ ̓ ἐ., Ro 10:2; ἔχειν ἐν ἐ., Ro 1:28 (v. AR, Eph., 248 ff.; and for a somewhat different view, Thayer, s.v.; Lft. on Col, 1:9; Tr., Syn., lxxv; Cremer, 159 f.; cf. αἴσθησις).†

From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), in the public domain.


20 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Romans 1:28
    And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
  • Romans 3:20
    Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
  • Romans 10:2
    For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
  • Ephesians 1:17
    That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
  • Ephesians 4:13
    Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
  • Philippians 1:9
    And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
  • Colossians 1:9
    For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
  • Colossians 1:10
    That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • Colossians 2:2
    That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
  • Colossians 3:10
    And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

6 in the Septuagint

  • Judith 9:14
    καὶ ποίησον ἐπὶ πᾶν τὸ ἔθνος σου καὶ πάσης φυλῆς ἐπίγνωσιν, τοῦ εἰδῆσαι ὅτι σὺ εἶ ὁ θεὸς πάσης δυνάμεως καὶ κράτους, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἄλλος ὑπερασπίζων τοῦ γένους Ἰσραὴλ εἰ μὴ σύ.
  • 2 Maccabees 9:11
    ἐνταῦθα οὗν ἤρξατο τὸ πολὺ τῆς ὑπερηφανίας λήγειν τεθραυσμένος, καὶ εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν ἔρχεσθαι θείᾳ μάστιγι, κατὰ στιγμὴν ἐπιτεινόμενος ταῖς ἀλγηδόσιν.
  • Proverbs 2:5
    τότε συνήσεις φόβον Κυρίου, καὶ ἐπίγνωσιν θεοῦ εὑρήσεις.
  • Hosea 4:1
    Ἀκούσατε λόγον Κυρίου, υἱοὶ Ἰσραήλ, ὅτι κρίσις τῷ κυρίῳ πρὸς τοὺς κατοικοῦντας τὴν γῆν, διότι οὐκ ἔστιν ἀλήθεια οὐδὲ ἔλεος οὐδὲ ἐπίγνωσις θεοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς·
  • Hosea 4:6
    ὡμοιώθη ὁ λαός μου ὡς οὐκ ἔχων γνῶσιν· ὅτι σὺ ἐπίγνωσιν ἀπώσω, κἀγὼ ἀπώσομαι σὲ τοῦ ἱερατεύειν μοι· καὶ ἐπελάθου νόμον θεοῦ σου, κἀγὼ ἐπιλήσομαι τέκνων σου.
  • Hosea 6:6
    διότι ἔλεος θέλω ἢ θυσίαν, καὶ ἐπίγνωσιν θεοῦ ἢ ὁλοκαυτώματα.

Biblion's Septuagint: the Greek Old Testament in H. B. Swete's edition (Cambridge, 1896–1905), as digitized by the Open Greek and Latin project at the University of Leipzig (First1KGreek), corrected against the printed pages, with lemmas, morphology, Strong's numbers and links to the Hebrew prepared for Biblion. CC BY-SA 4.0.