to care

Greek Verb

ἐπι-μελεομαι, -οῦμαι [in LXX: Gen.44:21 (עַיִן שׂוּם) I Est.6:27, Pro.27:25, Sir.30:25, 1Ma.11:37 *;] to take care of: with genitive, Luk.10:34-35, 1Ti.3:5. (AS)

to care

Greek Verb

ἐπιμελ-έομαι, also ἐπιμελ-μέλομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; the contraction form prevails in codices, e.g.[Refs 4th c.BC+], and is required by the metre in [Refs]: future ἐπιμελήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; -μεληθήσομαι variant in [Refs] (Doric dialect 3rd.person etc for 1st.person, 2nd.person singular -θησεῖ [Refs]: aorist ἐπεμελήθην [Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect ἐπιμεμέλημαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.41: active only in [Refs]:—take care of, have charge or management of, rare in Poets, as [Refs 5th c.BC+]; [ὑπὲρ] τῆς στρατηγίας [Refs 5th c.BC+]: c.accusative et infinitive, take care that. , [Refs]: c.genitive et infinitive, [Refs] with indicative future or subjunctive aorist, Foed. cited in [Refs]: with optative after an aorist, [Refs]; by ὅπως c.infinitive, [Refs]; by ὡς with optative (after past tenses), [Refs]; also ἐ. τινὸς ὅπως ἔσται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthyphro” 2d; by ἵνα c.subjunctive, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]: with neuter adjective in accusative, take care with respect to a thing, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with accusative cognate, ἐ. πᾶσαν ἐπιμέλειαν [Refs]: absolutely, give heed, attend, [Refs 5th c.BC+] 2). of public commissions, have charge of, be inspector or curator of, τῶν μοριῶν ἐλαῶν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁδῶν (of the Roman cura viarum) [Refs] —in _Attic dialect_ Inscrr, ἐπιμεληθῆναι (_infinitive_ = _imperative_) is usual of a definite commission, ποιήσεως “IG” 22.555, etc. (so -ηθέντων[Refs] 3). to be engaged in, cultivate any pursuit, art, etc, δυοῖν τέχναιν [Refs 5th c.BC+]

Greek

Verb

to care for (physically or otherwise); take care of; middle voice from g1909 (ἐπί) and the same as g3199 (μέλω)