epigraphō (to write on)

Meaning

Usually translated “inscribe”, “written” and “had been inscribed”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated

i will inscribe 2
written 1
had been inscribed 1
inscribed 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Hebrews 2
Mark 1
Acts 1
Revelation 1

4 books in all.

Explore in Scripture

Acts 17:23For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Hebrews 8:10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Hebrews 10:16This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
Revelation 21:12And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

Greek dictionary

ἐπιγράφω epigraphō · to write on

ἐπι-γράφω [in LXX for כָּתַב, Num.17:2; fig., Jer.31:33, al. ;] to write upon, inscribe: Mrk.15:26, Act.17:23, Rev.21:12; figuratively, Heb.8:10 (LXX) Heb.10:16.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “inscribe” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

INSCRI'BE, verb transitive

[Latin inscribo; in and scribo, to write, Eng. to scrape. See Scribe.]

To write on; to engrave on for perpetuity or duration; as, to inscribe a line or verse on a monument, on a column or pillar.
To imprint on; as, to inscribe any thing on the mind or memory.
To assign or address to; to comment to by a short address, less formal than a dedication; as, to inscribe an ode or a book to a prince.
To mark with letters, characters or words; as, to inscribe a stone with a name.

All definitions

To draw a figure within another, so that all the angles of the figure inscribed touch the angles, sides or planes of the other figure.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.