Lexicon epikeimai: to lie on Original Word: ἐπίκειμαιPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: epikeimai Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ik'-i-mahee) Short Definition: I lie upon, am insistent Definition: (a) dat: I am placed upon, am laid upon, lie upon, am imposed; I press upon, (b) absol: I press hard, am insistent, insist. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom epi and keimaiDefinitionto lie on NASB Translationam under (1), assailing (1), imposed (1), insistent (1), lying (1), placed (1), pressing around (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 1945: ἐπίκειμαιἐπίκειμαι; imperfect ἐπεκειμην; to lie upon or over, rest upon, be laid or placed upon; a. properly: ἐπί τίνι, John 11:38; namely, on the burning coals, John 21:9. b. figuratively, α. of things: of the pressure of a violent tempest, χειμῶνος ἐπικειμένου, Acts 27:20 (Plutarch, Timol. 28, 7); ἀνάγκη μοι ἐπίκειται, is laid upon me, 1 Corinthians 9:16 (Homer, Iliad 6, 458); ἐπικείμενα, of observances imposed on a man by law, Hebrews 9:10 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 635 (589)]. β. of men; to press upon, to be urgent: with the dative of person Luke 5:1; ἐπέκειντο αἰτούμενοι, Luke 23:23 (πολλῷ μᾶλλον ἐπέκειτο ἀξιῶν, Josephus, Antiquities 18, 6, 6; μᾶλλον ἐπέκειντο βλασφημοῦντες, 20, 5, 3). STRONGS NT 1945a: ἐπικέλλωἐπικέλλω: (1 aorist ἐπεκειλα); to run a ship ashore, to bring to land; so from Homer, Odyssey 9, 148 down; ἐπέκειλαν (R G ἐπώκειλαν) τήν ναῦν, Acts 27:41 L T Tr WH; but in opposition see Meyer at the passage (Cf. B. D. American edition, p. 3009.) STRONGS NT 1945b: ἐπικεφάλαιον [ἐπικεφάλαιον, ἐπικεφαλαιου, τό, head-money, poll-tax, (Aristotle, oec. 2, p. 1346{a}, 4 and 1348{a}, 32): Mark 12:14 WH (rejected) marginal reading for κῆνσον (others).]
Strong's impose, press upon. From epi and keimai; to rest upon (literally or figuratively) -- impose, be instant, (be) laid (there-, up-)on, (when) lay (on), lie (on), press upon. see GREEK epi see GREEK keimai |
