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Lexicon :: Strong's G1601 - ekpiptō

Aa
ἐκπίπτω
Transliteration
ekpiptō (Key)
Pronunciation
ek-pip'-to
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:167,846

Strong’s Definitions

ἐκπίπτω ekpíptō, ek-pip'-to; from G1537 and G4098; to drop away; specially, be driven out of one's course; figuratively, to lose, become inefficient:—be cast, fail, fall (away, off), take none effect.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x

The KJV translates Strong's G1601 in the following manner: fall (7x), fall off (2x), be cast (1x), take none effect (1x), fall away (1x), fail (1x), variations of 'fallen' (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 14x
The KJV translates Strong's G1601 in the following manner: fall (7x), fall off (2x), be cast (1x), take none effect (1x), fall away (1x), fail (1x), variations of 'fallen' (1x).

  1. to fall out of, to fall down from, to fall off

  2. metaph.

    1. to fall from a thing, to lose it

    2. to perish, to fall

      1. to fall from a place from which one cannot keep

      2. fall from a position

      3. to fall powerless, to fall to the ground, be without effect

        1. of the divine promise of salvation

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἐκπίπτω ekpíptō, ek-pip'-to; from G1537 and G4098; to drop away; specially, be driven out of one's course; figuratively, to lose, become inefficient:—be cast, fail, fall (away, off), take none effect.
STRONGS G1601:
ἐκπίπτω; perfect ἐκπέπτωκα; 2 aorist ἐξέπεσον; 1 aorist ἐξέπεσα (Acts 12:7 L T Tr WH; Galatians 5:4; on this aorist see (πίπτω and) ἀπέρχομαι); (from Homer down); to fall out of, to fall down from;
1. properly: αἱ ἁλύσεις ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν (see ἐκ, I. 3 (cf. Winer's Grammar, 427 (398) and De verb. comp. etc. Part ii., p. 11)), Acts 12:7 (ἐκ τῆς θήκης, Isaiah 6:13; ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, Isaiah 14:12); absolutely: Mark 13:25 R G; Acts 27:32; James 1:11; 1 Peter 1:24; of navigators, ἐκπίπτειν εἰς (i. e. from a straight course) to fall off, i. e. be driven into (cf. Stallbaum on Plato's Phileb., p. 106f; others supply 'from deep water,' and render ἐκπίπτειν, to be cast away), Acts 27:17, 26, 29, in this last verse L T Tr] WH have adopted ἐκπίπτειν κατά; (often in Greek writings, as εἰς γῆν, Euripides, Hel. 409; εἰς τόν λιμένα, Thucydides 2, 92).
2. metaphorically,
a. τίνος (Winers Grammar, 427 (398), and De verb. comp. etc. as above), to fall from a thing, to lose it: τῆς χάριτος, Galatians 5:4; τοῦ ἰδίου στηριγμοῦ, 2 Peter 3:17 (τῆς πρός τόν δῆμον εὐνοίας, Plutarch, Tib. Gracch. 21; βασιλείας, Josephus, Antiquities 7, 9, 2; also with prepositions, ἐκ τῶν ἐοντων, Herodotus 3, 14; ἀπό τῶν ἐλπίδων, Thucydides 8, 81); πόθεν, Revelation 2:5 Rec. (ἐκεῖθεν, Aelian v. h. 4, 7).
b. absolutely, to perish; to fail (properly, to fall from a place which one cannot keep, fall from its position): ἡ ἀγάπη, 1 Corinthians 13:8 R G; to fall powerless, fall to the ground, be without effect: of the divine promise of salvation by Christ, Romans 9:6.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
6:13; 14:12
Mark
13:25
Acts
12:7; 12:7; 27:17; 27:26; 27:29; 27:32
Romans
9:6
1 Corinthians
13:8
Galatians
5:4; 5:4
James
1:11
1 Peter
1:24
2 Peter
3:17
Revelation
2:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G1601 matches the Greek ἐκπίπτω (ekpiptō),
which occurs 13 times in 13 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - And whosoever shall enter with his neighbour into the thicket, to gather wood, if the hand of him that cuts wood with the axe should be violently shaken, and the axe head falling off from the handle should light on his neighbour, and he should die, he shall flee to one of these cities, and live.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:5 - And behold, one was cutting down a beam, and the [fn]axe head fell into the water: and he cried out, Alas! master: and it was hidden.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:2 - Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:30 - Neither shall he in any wise escape the darkness: let the wind blast his blossom, and let his flower fall off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:33 - And let him be gathered as the unripe grape before the time, and let him fall as the blossom of the olive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:9 - They have snatched the fatherless from the breast, and have afflicted the outcast.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 13:17 - A rash king shall fall into mischief: but a wise messenger shall deliver him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 10:10 - If the axe-head should fall off, then the man troubles his countenance, and he must put forth more strength: and in that case skill is of no advantage to a man.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:13 - And yet there [fn]shall be a tenth upon it, and again it shall be for a spoil, as a turpentine tree, and as an acorn when it falls out of its husk.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:12 - How has Lucifer, that rose in the morning, fallen from heaven! He that sent orders to all the nations is crushed to the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:1 - Woe to the crown of pride, the hirelings of Ephraim, the flower that has fallen from the glory of the top of the fertile mountain, they that are drunken without wine.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:4 - And the fading flower of the [fn]glorious hope on the top of the high mountain shall be as the early fig; he that sees it, before he takes it into his hand, will desire to swallow it down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:7 - The grass withers, and the flower fades:
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