1909.  Strong's Dictionary Study



1909. epi {ep-ee'}; a primary preposition; properly, meaning 
superimposition (of time, place, order, etc.), as a relation of 
distribution [with the genitive case], i.e. over, upon, etc.; of 
rest (with the det.) at, on, etc.; of direction (with the 
accusative case) towards, upon, etc.: --about (the times), above,
 after, against, among, as long as (touching), at, beside, X 
have charge of, (be-, [where-])fore, in (a place, as much as, 
the time of, -to), (because) of, (up-)on (behalf of), over, (by, 
for) the space of, through(-out), (un-)to(-ward), with. In 
compounds it retains essentially the same import, at, upon, etc. 
(literally or figuratively).



 

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