Strong's Number 1941
Transliteration:
epikaleomai
{ep-ee-kal-eh'-om-ahee}
Word Origin:
middle voice from
1909 and
2564
TDNT:
3:496,*
Part of Speech:
verb
Usage in the KJV:
call on 7, be (one's) surname 6, be surnamed 5, call upon 4, appeal unto 4, call 4, appeal to 1, appeal 1
Total: 32
Definition:
- to put a name upon, to surname
- to permit one's self to be surnamed
- to be named after someone
- to call something to one
- to cry out upon or against one
- to charge something to one as a crime or reproach
- to summon one on any charge, prosecute one for a crime
- to blame one for, accuse one of
- to invoke
- to call upon for one's self, in one's behalf
- any one as a helper
- as my witness
- as my judge
- to appeal unto
- to call upon by pronouncing the name of Jehovah
- an expression finding its explanation in the fact that prayers addressed to God ordinarily began with an invocation of the divine name