Strong's Greek · G1875

G1875 epán

ἐπάν

ep-an'

when/as soon as

Looking for Hebrew H1875 dârash? It has the same number in Strong's Hebrew lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of G1875. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.

epán appears 3 times in Scripture, in Matthew 2:8, Luke 11:22 and Luke 11:34. In the Doxa app, open each of these verses, keep your notes on them, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

a particle of indefinite contemporaneousness; whenever, as soon as

In the King James Version

when

Derivation

from G1909 (ἐπί) and G302 (ἄν);

Appears 3 times in Scripture

Matthew 2:8

“And sending them to Bethlehem, he said: “Go and search carefully for the Child, and when you find Him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship Him.””

Luke 11:22

“But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted, and then he divides up his plunder.”

Luke 11:34

“Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body is full of darkness.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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