Word Summary
epeidēper: inasmuch as
Original Word: ἐπειδήπερTransliteration: epeidēper
Phonetic Spelling: (ep-i-day'-per)
Part of Speech: Conjunction
Short Definition: inasmuch as
Meaning: inasmuch as
Strong's Concordance
inasmuch.
From epeide and per; since indeed (of cause) -- forasmuch.
see GREEK epeide
see GREEK per
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1895: ἐπειδήπερἐπειδήπερ (
ἐπειδή περ Lachmann), conjunction (from
ἐπεί,
δή and
περ),
seeing that, forasmuch as; Itala and
Vulg.quoniamquidem,
since now (cf.
Winer's Grammar, 448 (417)):
Luke 1:1. (
Aristotle, phys. 8, 5 (p. 256b, 25);
Dionysius Halicarnassus 2, 72;
Philo ad Gai. § 25, and Attic writings from
Thucydides down.)