εως (ἡ) :
      1 action de reconnaître, HDN 7, 6 ;
      2 action de reconnaître, de pratiquer (qqe ch.) PLUT. M. 1145 a ; d’où abs. connaissance de qqe ch. : SPT. Prov. 2, 5 ; Hos. 4, 1 ; 8, 6 ; NT. Rom. 10, 2, etc. ;
      3 recherche, examen, POL. 2, 7, 6, etc.

Étym. ἐπιγιγνώσκω.

εως, ἡ, recognition, c. gen., Phld. Lib. p. 49O. ; σφραγίδων Hdn. 7.6.7; [τινῶν] διὰ βοῆς, δι’ ὀμμάτων, J. BJ 6.2.6; ἐς ἐπίγνωσιν App. Praef. 13; recognition of a mistake, D.S. 17.114; determination of a fact, PTeb. 24.23 (ii BC).
knowledge, τινός Plb. 3.7.6, 3.31.4, Attal. ap. Hipparch. 1.8.10, cf. Ph. Bel. 59.2; τοῦ μέλλοντος Ph. 2.222; μουσικῆς Plu. 2.1145a; θεοῦ LXX Pr. 2.5, cf. Ep. Rom. 10.2, etc. ; τὸν θεὸν ἔχειν ἐν ἐπιγνώσει ib. 1.28, etc. ; λαβὼν κανόνας εἰς ἐπίγνωσιν τῆς ἀληθείας Arr. Epict. 2.20.21, cf. S.E. M. 7.259; ἐ. ἐπιστημονική scientific theory, Theol.Ar. 17.
decision, πρὸς ἐπίγνωσιν κεκαθίκασιν SIG 826 D 16; θεῶν ἐ. Him. Or. 1.17.

ἡ, das Anerkennen, τῶν σφραγίδων Hdn. 7.6.15 ; übh. Erkenntnis, Pol. 2.7.6 ; Plut.

ἐπί-γνωσις, -εως, ἡ
(< ἐπιγινώσκω, which see), [in LXX: 3Ki.7:14 (B. γν-), Pro.2:5, Hos.4:1, 6 6:6 (דַּעַת), Jdth.9:14, 2Ma.9:11 * ;]
acquaintance, discernment, recognition (Plut., al.): Php.1:9, Col.3:10; with genitive of thing(s), Col.1:9 2:2, Phm 6; τ. ἀληθείας, 1Ti.2:4, 2Ti.2:25 3:7, Tit.1:1, Heb.10:26; τ. ἁμαρτίας, Rom.3:20; with genitive of person(s), of God: Eph.1:17, Col.1:10, 2Pe.1:2-3; of Christ: Eph.4:13, 2Pe.1:8 2:20; of God and Christ: 2Pe.1:2; κατ ̓ ἐ., Rom.10:2; ἔχειν ἐν ἐ., Rom.1:28 (see AR, Eph., 248 ff.; and for a somewhat different view, Thayer, see word; Lft. on Col, 1:9; Tr., Syn., LXXv; Cremer, 159 f.; cf. αἴσθησις).†
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