Original Word: ἐπίκειμαι
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: epikeimai
Pronunciation: eh-PEE-kay-my
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ik'-i-mahee)
KJV: impose, be instant, (be) laid (there-, up-)on, (when) lay (on), lie (on), press upon
NASB: am under, assailing, imposed, insistent, lying, placed, pressing around
Word Origin: [from G1909 (ἐπί - over) and G2749 (κεῖμαι - laid)]

1. to rest upon
{literally or figuratively}

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

Word Origin
from epi and keimai
Definition
to lie on
NASB Translation
am under (1), assailing (1), imposed (1), insistent (1), lying (1), placed (1), pressing around (1).

STRONGS NT 1945: ἐπίκειμαι

ἐπίκειμαι; 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).]

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