# G1980 ἐπισκέπτομαι

ἐπισκέπτομαι (episképtomai), Strong’s G1980: to inspect, i.e. (by implication) to select; by extension, to go to see, relieve KJV: look out, visit. Occurs 166 times.

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*episképtomai* — to inspect, i.e. (by implication) to select; by extension, to go to see, relieve

KJV: look out, visit

Built from [ἐπί epí](https://besorah.bible/word/G1909) (meaning superimposition) + [σκοπός skopós](https://besorah.bible/word/G4649) (perhaps akin to G4626)

Occurs 166 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 25:36](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/25?v=36) — I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison and you came to me.’
- [Matthew 25:43](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/25?v=43) — I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in; naked, and you didn’t clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn’t visit…
- [Luke 1:68](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/1?v=68) — “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;
- [Luke 7:16](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/7?v=16) — Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited his…
- [Acts 6:3](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/6?v=3) — Therefore, select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we…
- [Acts 7:23](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/7?v=23) — But when he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.
- [Acts 15:14](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/15?v=14) — Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.
- [Acts 15:36](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/15?v=36) — After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let’s return now and visit our brothers in every city in which we proclaimed…
- [Hebrews 2:6](https://besorah.bible/besorah/hebrews/2?v=6) — But one has somewhere testified, saying, “What is man, that you think of him? Or the son of man, that you care for him?
- [Jacob 1:27](https://besorah.bible/besorah/jacob/1?v=27) — Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…