What does ἐπικουρία (epikouría) mean in the Bible?
ἐπικουρία (epikouría): Active military or allied aid, emphasizing reinforcement from an outside ally or helper in need.
Greek · G1947
ἐπικουρία
ἐπικουρία (epikouría): Active military or allied aid, emphasizing reinforcement from an outside ally or helper in need.
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ἐπικουρίαG1947
Pronunciationepikouría
What does ἐπικουρία (epikouría) mean in the Bible?
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How does the BSB render G1947?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include help (1).
Where does ἐπικουρία (epikouría) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Acts 26:22. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Ithelp1×Acts 26:22
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First aligned rowActs 26:22
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
Acts1
Source forms
Ἐπικουρίας1xEpikouriasActs 26:22
Parsing patterns
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular1xActs 26:22
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Active military or allied aid, emphasizing reinforcement from an outside ally or helper in need.
Strong'sG1947
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
assistance
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Active military or allied aid, emphasizing reinforcement from an outside ally or helper in need.
(ἐπικουρέω to be an ἐπίκουρος, an ally) [in LXX: Wis.13:18 * ;] aid, assistance: Act.26:22.
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
Acts 26:22Noun Genitive Singular Feminine
ἐπικουρίαςepikouriav
help, aid
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternGenitive (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Genitive · Singular · FeminineActs 26:221×
Word Origins
ἐπικουρία is built from these roots: