Lexical Summary
epei: when, because
Original Word: ἐπείTransliteration: epei
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-i')
Part of Speech: Conjunction
Short Definition: when, because
Meaning: when, because
Strong's Concordance
because, else, for that, otherwise
From epi and ei; thereupon, i.e. Since (of time or cause) -- because, else, for that (then, -asmuch as), otherwise, seeing that, since, when.
see GREEK epi
see GREEK ei
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1893: ἐπείἐπεί (from temporal
ἐπί and
εἰ, literally, thereupon when;
Curtius, Erläut. etc., p. 182; cf.
Etym. Magn. 356, 7), conjunction (Latin
cum),
when, since (cf.
Winer's Grammar, § 53, 1); used:
1. of time, after; so once in the N. T.: Luke 7:1 (where L T Tr text WH text ἐπειδή).
2. of cause, etc., since, seeing that, because: Matthew 18:32; (Matthew 21:40 T Tr WH); ; Mark 15:42; Luke 1:34; John 13:29; John 19:31; 1 Corinthians 14:12; 2 Corinthians 11:18; 2 Corinthians 13:3; Hebrews 5:2, 11; Hebrews 6:13; Hebrews 9:17; Hebrews 11:11; ἐπεί οὖν since then, Hebrews 2:14; Hebrews 4:6. Agreeably to a very common abbreviation of speech, we must often supply in thought between ἐπεί and the proposition depending upon it some such phrase as if it is (or were) otherwise; so that the particle, although retaining the force of since, is yet to be rendered otherwise, else, or for then (German sonst); so in Romans 11:6, 22; Hebrews 9:26; ἐπεί ἄρα, 1 Corinthians 5:10; 1 Corinthians 7:14 (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 53, 8 a.); ἐπεί alone before a question (cf. Winers Grammar, 480 (417); Buttmann, 233 (200)): Romans 3:6; 1 Corinthians 14:16; 1 Corinthians 15:29; Hebrews 10:2; (4 Macc. 1:33; 2:7, 19; 6:34 (); ). Cf. Matthiae, § 618; (Buttmann, § 149, 5).
