ἐπισκέπτομαι

Matthew 25:36 ἐπεσκέψασθέ you visited

I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you looked after Me, I was in prison and you visited Me.’

Here: To go and see someone so as to look after them: checking on them, seeing what they need, and meeting it. In the Greek Old Testament the same verb is used for God 'visiting' his people to help them. A courtesy call is too small a picture.

Matthew 25:43 ἐπεσκέψασθέ did you visit

I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, I was naked and you did not clothe Me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after Me.’

Luke 1:68 ἐπεσκέψατο He has visited

“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, because He has visited and redeemed His people.

Here: The Greek Bible's word for God turning his attention to his people and coming in to act on their behalf, as at the Exodus. Not a social call but a decisive intervention.

Luke 1:78 ἐπισκέψεται will visit

because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the Dawn will visit us from on high,

Here: In the Greek Old Testament this is God 'visiting' his people: coming to see their condition and step in, usually to rescue them (Exod 3:16; 4:31). Here the tense is future, 'will visit,' and the verb echoes 1:68, 'he has visited and redeemed his people.'

Luke 7:16 ἐπεσκέψατο Has visited

A sense of awe swept over all of them, and they glorified God. “A great prophet has appeared among us!” they said. “God has visited His people!”

Here: In Israel's scriptures, God 'visits' his people when he steps in to see their trouble and act on it, usually to rescue them (Exodus, Ruth). The crowd is saying God has personally come to attend to Israel.

Acts 6:3 ἐπισκέψασθε do select

Therefore, brothers, select from among you seven men confirmed to be full of the Spirit and wisdom. We will assign this responsibility to them

Here: A command to the whole assembly to look the community over carefully and pick out suitable people. The word means choosing after examination, not drawing names at random. It comes from the same family as episkopos, 'overseer'.

Acts 7:23 ἐπισκέψασθαι to visit

When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

Acts 15:14 ἐπεσκέψατο visited

Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.

Here: In Greek scripture this is the word for God 'visiting': stepping in to act on someone's behalf, as when he visited Israel in Egypt. Here it takes an infinitive directly ('visited / took care to take'). God personally stepped in, and this time it was among the nations.

Acts 15:36 ἐπισκεψώμεθα let us look after

Some time later Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us go back and visit the brothers in every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, to see how they are doing.”

Here: 'Let us look in on.' This means going in person to see someone's condition and help them, with a sense of responsibility for them. It is more than a social call.

Hebrews 2:6 ἐπισκέπτῃ You care for

But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

Here: 'You keep looking in on him.' Literally 'look upon', this is the Greek Bible's regular word for God 'visiting' people: coming to inspect, take notice and act, here clearly for their good. It is stronger than a feeling of concern.

James 1:27 ἐπισκέπτεσθαι to visit

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Here: To go and see about someone and take responsibility for what you find: to look after, provide for, step in. The present tense means an ongoing practice, not a single call.