epi G1909

ἐπί (epi) means “upon/to/against” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

ἐπί Greek · G1909 882 tagged occurrences in 775 verses

Pronunciation guide: ep-ee' Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

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TBESG · G1909

ἐπί · epi · upon/to/against

ἐπί (before a smooth breathing ἐπ᾽, before a rough breathing ἐφ᾽), prep. with genitive, dative, accusative (accusative most frequently in NT), with primary sense of superposition, on, upon. I. C. genitive, 1. of place, answering the question, where? (a) of the place on which, on, upon: ἐπὶ (τ.) γῆς, Mat.6:10, 19, al.; τ. κεφαλῆς, 1Co.11:10; τ. νεφελῶν, Mat.24:3o, al.; like ἐν, in constr. praegn. after verbs of motion: βάλλειν, Mrk.4:26; σπείρειν, ib. 31; ἔρχεσθαι, Heb.6:7, al.; figuratively, ἐπ᾽ ἀληθείας (MM, see word ἀ.); of the subject of thought or speech, Gal.3:16; of power or authority, over, πάντων, Rom.9:5: τ. γάζης, Act.8:27; ἐξουσία, Rev.2:26 20:6; (b) of vicinity, at, by: τ. θαλάσσης, Jhn.6:9; τ. ὁδοῦ, Mat.21:19; τοῦ βάτου, Mrk.12:26 (see Swete, in l.); with genitive of person(s), in the presence of, before, Mat.28:14, Act.23:30, 1Co.6:1, al. 2. Of time, (a) with genitive of person(s), in the time of: ἐπὶ Ἐλισαίου, Luk.4:27; ἐπὶ Κλαυδίου, Act.11:28; ἐπὶ Ἀβιάθαρ ἀρχιερέως, when A. was high priest, Mrk.2:26; (b) with genitive of thing(s), at, at the time of: Mat.1:11, Heb.1:2, 2Pe.3:3; ἐπὶ τ. προσευχῶν, Rom.1:10, Eph.1:16, 1Th.1:2, Phm 4. II. C. dative, of place, answering the question, where? (a) lit., on, upon: Mat.9:16, 14:8, al.; after verbs of motion (see supr., I, 1, (a)), Mat.9:16 Act.8:16; above, Luk.23:38; at, by, Mrk.13:29, Jhn.5:2, Act.5:9, al.; (b) metaphorically, upon, on the ground of, Luk.4:4 (LXX); in the matter of, Mrk.6:52 (see Swete, in l.); upon, of, concerning, Act.5:35, 40; of the ground, reason or motive (Bl., §38, 2; 43, 3), Mat.18:3 19:9, Rom.12:12, al.; ἐφ᾽ ᾧ, for the reason that, because, Rom.5:12 2Co.5:4; after verbs of motion, over, Mat.18:13, Rom.16:19, al.; of a condition (cl.), Rom.8:20, 1Co.9:10; ἐπὶ δυσὶ μάρτυσιν (see Westc. on Heb.9:10), Heb.10:28; of purpose or aim, Eph.2:10, Php.4:10; of authority, over, Mat.24:47 Luk.12:44; of hostility, with dative of person(s) (cl.), against, Luk.12:52; in addition to (cl.), 2Co.7:13; of an adjunct, in, at, on, Php.1:3 2:17. III. C. accusative, 1. of place of motion upon or over, answering the question, whither? (a) lit., upon, over: Mat.14:28, 29, Luk.5:19, al. mult.; in NT also, answering the question, where? (as with genitive, dative), Mrk.4:38 11:2, Luk.2:25, Jhn.1:32; ἐπὶ τ. αὐτό, Act.1:15 2:1, al.; of motion to a vicinity, to, Mrk.16:2, Act.8:36, al.; (b) metaphorically (in wh. "the accusative is more widely prevalent than it strictly should be," Bl., §43, 1); of blessings, evils, etc., coming upon one, with accusative of person(s), Mat.10:13 12:28, Act.2:17, Jhn.18:4, Eph.5:6, al.; of addition (dative in cl.), λύπη ἐπὶ λύπην, Php.2:27; ἐπικαλεῖν ὄνομα ἐπί (see: ἐπικαλέω), Act.15:17, Jas.2:7; καλεῖν ἐπί, to call after, Luk.1:59; of number or degree: ἐπὶ τρίς (cl. εἰς τ.), thrice, Act.10:16 11:10; ἐπὶ πλεῖον, the more, further, Act.4:17 2Ti.2:16 3:9 (see also infr., 2, (a)); ἐφ᾽ ὅσον (see infr., ib.), forasmuch as, Mat.25:40, 45, Rom.11:13; of power, authority, control, Luk.1:33, Act.7:10 Rom.5:14, Heb.3:6, al.; of the direction of thoughts and feelings, unto, towards, Luk.1:17 23:28, Act.9:35, 42, Rom.11:22, Gal.4:9, Eph.2:7, 1Ti.5:5, al.; of purpose, for, Mat.3:7, Luk.23:48; ἐφ᾽ ὅ πάρει (Rec. ἐφ᾽ ᾧ, Mat.26:50; of hostility, against, Mat.24:7, Mrk.3:24-26 10:11 13:8, Luk.9:5, Jhn.13:18, Act.7:54, 1Co.7:36, 2Co.1:23; Of reference, concerning, for (cl. usually dative), Mrk.9:12 15:24, Jhn.19:24, Rom.4:9. 2. Of time, (a) during, for: Luk.4:25 (WH, txt., omits ἐπί), Act.13:31 16:18, Heb.11:30, al.; ἐφ᾽ ὅσον (χρόνον), as long as, for so long time as, Mrk.9:15 Rom.7:1, al. (for ἐφ᾽ ὅ in another sense, see supr., 1, (b)); ἐφ᾽ ἱκανόν (see: ἱ), Act.20:11; ἐπὶ πλεῖον (see supr., 1, (b)), yet longer, further, Act.20:9 24:4; (b) on, about, towards (cl. εἰς): Luk.10:35 Act.3:1 4:5. IV. In composition, ἐπί signifies: up, ἐπαίρω; upon, ἐπίγειος, ἐπιδημέω, ὠπικαθίζω; towards, επιβλέπω, ὠπεκτείνω; over (of superintendence), ἐπιστάτης; again, in addition, ἐπαιτέω; against, ἐπιορκέω, ἐπιβουλή. (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

on, to, against, on the basis of, at.

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How translators render G1909

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
on	277
to	87
in	81
over	48
at	46
upon	34
against	32
vvv	32
for	29
before	19
by	11
about	8
of	8
with	8
together	5
around	4
because of	4
above	3
because	3
from	3
across	2
after	2
among	2
as	2
be on	2
during	2
in accordance with	2
into	2
is against	2
meaning	2
on the testimony of	2
right at	2
toward	2
under	2
whatever	2
you would	2
a gathering of	1
along	1
and for	1
are at	1
are on	1
as he leaned on	1
as long as	1
at the time	1
back to	1
beside	1
between	1
but in	1
by those who are	1
by which	1
divided against	1
facedown	1
from the things	1
further	1
has given	1
he of	1
he sets it on	1
in addition to	1
in charge of	1
in front of	1
in leading	1
in protest against	1
in return for	1
in the passage about	1
in the time	1
inasmuch	1
near	1
on the basis of	1
on whom	1
only	1
that for which	1
the man on	1
they set it on	1
time	1
to decide	1
to do	1
until	1
which	1
will be on	1
will lie in	1
you have lived on	1
you would against	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
on	193
upon	157
in	122
over	49
unto	47
at	43
to	42
against	39
for	27
of	19
before	18
into	17
by	9
with	8
together	7
toward	7
about	5
among	5
above	4
after	4
as	3
beside	3
under	3
whereon	3
as long as	2
bountifully	2
inasmuch	2
many	2
thereon	2
three	2
through	2
throughout	2
wherein	2
a great while	1
a long while	1
about the time	1
all	1
amazed	1
and	1
and as	1
as touching	1
because of	1
bed	1
behalf	1
being	1
but	1
by the space of	1
earth	1
for the space of	1
for yourselves	1
forth	1
from him	1
furlongs	1
in the days of	1
in the time	1
inasmuch as	1
one place	1
saith	1
that	1
that for	1
the eyes	1
the truth	1
three times	1
thrice	1
touching	1
truly	1
up	1
wherefore	1

Verses containing G1909

Page 14 of 16. 775 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

James 5:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.
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1 Peter 1:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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1 Peter 1:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He was known before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in the last times for your sake.
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1 Peter 2:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”
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1 Peter 2:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
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1 Peter 2:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.
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1 Peter 3:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
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1 Peter 4:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you.
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1 Peter 5:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.
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2 Peter 1:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of my body,
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2 Peter 2:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”
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2 Peter 3:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Most importantly, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
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1 John 3:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as Christ is pure.
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3 John 1:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So if I come, I will call attention to his malicious slander against us. And unsatisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers and forbids those who want to do so, even putting them out of the church.
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Jude 1:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
when they said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow after their own ungodly desires.”
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Revelation 1:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him—even those who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. So shall it be! Amen.
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Revelation 1:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,
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Revelation 1:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
This is the mystery of the seven stars you saw in My right hand and of the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.
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Revelation 2:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.
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Revelation 2:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned the so-called deep things of Satan: I will place no further burden upon you
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Revelation 2:26 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.
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Revelation 3:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.
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Revelation 3:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Because you have kept My command to persevere, I will also keep you from the hour of testing that is about to come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
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Revelation 3:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from My God), and My new name.
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Revelation 3:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.
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Revelation 4:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
At once I was in the Spirit, and I saw a throne standing in heaven, with someone seated on it.
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Revelation 4:4 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads.
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Revelation 4:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever,
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Revelation 4:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the twenty-four elders fall down before the One seated on the throne, and they worship Him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying:
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Revelation 5:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the One seated on the throne. It had writing on both sides and was sealed with seven seals.
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Revelation 5:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or look inside it.
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Revelation 5:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And He came and took the scroll from the right hand of the One seated on the throne.
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Revelation 5:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign upon the earth.”
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Revelation 5:13 · BSB · 3 occurrences
And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever!”
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Revelation 6:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So I looked and saw a white horse, and its rider held a bow. And he was given a crown, and he rode out to overcome and conquer.
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Revelation 6:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then another horse went forth. It was bright red, and its rider was granted permission to take away peace from the earth and to make men slay one another. And he was given a great sword.
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Revelation 6:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” Then I looked and saw a black horse, and its rider held in his hand a pair of scales.
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Revelation 6:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then I looked and saw a pale green horse. Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed close behind. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword, by famine, by plague, and by the beasts of the earth.
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Revelation 6:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge those who dwell upon the earth and avenge our blood?”
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Revelation 6:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences
And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
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Revelation 7:1 · BSB · 4 occurrences
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back its four winds so that no wind would blow on land or sea or on any tree.
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Revelation 7:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence
“Do not harm the land or sea or trees until we have placed a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”
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Revelation 7:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And they cried out in a loud voice: “Salvation to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
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Revelation 7:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And all the angels stood around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. And they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God,
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Revelation 7:15 · BSB · 2 occurrences
For this reason, they are before the throne of God and serve Him day and night in His temple; and the One seated on the throne will spread His tabernacle over them.
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Revelation 7:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence
‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’
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Revelation 7:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
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Revelation 8:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, along with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar before the throne.
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Revelation 8:10 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
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Revelation 8:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And as I observed, I heard an eagle flying overhead, calling in a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the remaining three angels!”
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