Lexical Summary epoptēs: a looker-on, a spectator Original Word: ἐπόπτηςTransliteration: epoptēs Phonetic Spelling: (ep-op'-tace) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a looker-on, a spectator Meaning: a looker-on, a spectator Strong's Concordance eyewitness. From epi and a presumed derivative of optanomai; a looker-on -- eye-witness. see GREEK epi see GREEK optanomai Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2030: ἐπόπτηςἐπόπτης, ἐπόπτου, ὁ (from unused ἐπόπτω); 1. an overseer, inspector, see ἐπίσκοπος; (Aeschylus, Pindar, others; of God, in 2 Macc. 3:39 2Macc. 7:35; 3Macc. 2:21; Additions to Esther 5:1; ἀνθρωπίνων ἔργων, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 59, 3 [ET]). 2. a spectator, eye-witness of anything: so in 2 Peter 1:16; inasmuch as those were called ἐπόπται by the Greeks who had attained to the third (i. e. the highest) grade of the Eleusinian mysteries (Plutarch, Alcib. 22, and elsewhere), the word seems to be used here to designate those privileged to be present at the heavenly spectacle of the transfiguration of Christ. |
    |