Lexical Summary
episkiazó: To overshadow, to cast a shadow upon
Original Word: ἐπισκιάζω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: episkiazó
Pronunciation: ep-ee-skee-ad'-zo
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-ee-skee-ad'-zo)
KJV: overshadow
NASB: overshadow, fall, overshadowed, overshadowing
Word Origin: [from G1909 (ἐπί - over) and a derivative of G4639 (σκία - shadow)]
1. to cast a shade upon
2. (by analogy) to envelop in a haze of brilliancy
3. (figuratively) to invest with preternatural influence
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
overshadow.
From epi and a derivative of skia; to cast a shade upon, i.e. (by analogy) to envelop in a haze of brilliancy; figuratively, to invest with preternatural influence -- overshadow.
see GREEK epi
see GREEK skia
HELPS Word-studies
1982 episkiázō (from 1909 /epí, "upon" and skiazō, "to cast shade") – properly, to cast a shadow on; overshadow, which leaves a natural (apt) result.
1982 /episkiázō ("overshadow") is used in the NT of God's over-shadowing presence – which always brings His boulē-plan to pass (see 1012 /boulḗ, "God's immutable will for physical circumstances").
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Originfrom
epi and
skiaDefinitionto overshadow
NASB Translationfall (1), overshadow (2), overshadowed (1), overshadowing (1).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1982: ἐπισκιάζωἐπισκιάζω; (imperfect
ἐπεσκιαζον,
Luke 9:34 L marginal reading
T Tr text
WH); future
ἐπισκιάσω; 1 aorist
ἐπεσκίασα;
to throw a shadow upon, to envelop in shadow, to overshadow:
τίνι,
Acts 5:15. From a vaporous cloud that casts a shadow the word is transferred to a shining cloud surrounding and enveloping persons with brightness:
τινα,
Matthew 17:5;
Luke 9:34;
τίνι,
Mark 9:7. Tropically, of the Holy Spirit exerting creative energy upon the womb of the virgin Mary and impregnating it (a use of the word which seems to have been drawn from the familiar O. T. idea of a cloud as symbolizing the immediate presence and power of God): with the dative
Luke 1:35. (In secular authors generally with an accusative of the object and in the sense of
obscuring:
Herodotus 1, 209;
Sophocles,
Aristotle, Thcophr.,
Philo,
Lucian,
Herodian,
Geoponica. the
Sept. for
סָכַך to cover,
Psalm 90:4
